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legislation. The Brief as it appears to-day is the result of 
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reward any person first advising me of any error that 
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THE GAME LAWS IN BRIEF 
UNITED STATES and CANADA. 



This edition is revised to the date of index on the last 
page* Any change in a law, as it is printed in the body 
of the book, is noted in the index ^ J^ Jt. ^ 

IW ALWAYS CONSULT THE INDEX. 



The purpose of the '*Game Laws in Brief'' is to give the 
provisions which relate to seasons for fish and game, the limita- 
tions as to size or number, transportation, non-resident require- 
ments, and other restrictions, for the practical guidance of sports- 
men and anglers as to shooting and fishing J^ Ji Jb 

Method.— The sections are printed in abstract; but better to insure accuracy the 

language is that of the original. ^' 

"Kill," "catch," or other term, takes the place of the more comprehensive formula 

ot the statute— 'catch, kill, mjure or destroy, or pursue with such intent," etc. 
The Laws are general — Local laws obtain in certain States. 
The date of enactment given is of the original statute, but the text is given 

here as amended to the date printed on last page facing back cover. 
If no close season is named for a species the law prescribes none. 
Possession is always unlawful in close season, except that some States allow from 

three days to one month after the season closes. 
Netting game fish or catching by drugs, explosives, dams, or any mode other 

than angling with hook and line, is forbidden. 
Birds other than game (except of prey) are protected at all times. 
Nests and eggs of all birds (except of prey) are protected. 
Night shooting is generally prohibited. 

Netting or snaring game birds or killing by any mode other than shooting 
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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF. 



THE FEDERAL LAW. 
The Lacy Act. Statutes at Large. Chapter 553 Approved May 25, 1900. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representat^ives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That tlie duties and powers of 
the Department of Agriculture are hereby enlarged so as to include the 
preservation, distribution, introduction and restoration of game birds and 
other wild birds. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to 
adopt such measures as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of 
this act, and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds as may be 
required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various States and 
Territories. The object and purpose of this act is to aid in the restora- 
tion of such birds in those parts of the United States adapted thereto, 
where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to regulate the 
introduction of American or foreign birds or animals in localities where 
they have not heretofore existed. 

The Secretary of Agriculture shall from time to time collect and publish 
useful information as to the propagation, uses, and preservation of such 
birds. 

And the Secretary of Agriculture shall make and publish all needful 
rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this act, and shall 
expend, for said purposes such sums as Congress may appropriate therefor. 

Importation. — Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or per- 
sons to import into the United States any foreign wild animal or bird 
except under special permit from the United States Department of Agri- 
culture: Provided, That nothing in this section shall restrict the impor- 
tation of natural history specimens for museums or scientific collections, 
or the importation of cerain cage birds, such as domesticated canaries, 
parrots, or such other species as the Secretary of Agriculture may 
designate. 

Prohibited Species. — The importation of the mongoose, the so-called 
"flying foxes" or fruit bats, the English sparrow, the starling, or such 
other birds or animals as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time 
to time declare injurious to the interests of agriculture or horticulture is 
hereby prohibited, and such species upon arrival at any of the ports of the 
United States shall be destroyed or returned at the expense of the owner. 
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make regulations 
for carrying into effect the provisions of this section. 

Shipment. — Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons 
to deliver to any common carrier, or for any common carrier to transport 
from one State or Territory to another State or Territory, or from the 
District of Columbia or Alaska to any State or Territory, or from any 
State or Territory to the District of Columbia or Alaska, any foreign 
animals or birds the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead 
bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, where such animals 
or birds have been killed in violation of the laws of the State, Territory, 
For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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or District in which the same were killed: Provided, That nothin herein 
shall prevent the transportation of any dead birds or animals killed 
during the season when the same may be lawfully captured, and the ex- 
port of which is not prohibited by law m the State, Territory, or District 
in which the same are killed. 

Marking Packages.— Sec. 4. That all packages containing such dead 
animals, birds, or parts thereof, when shipped by interstate commerce, as 
provided in Section i of this act, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so 
that the name and address of the shipper and the nature of the contents 
may be readily ascertained on inspection of the outside of such packages. 
For each evasion or violation of this act the shipper shall, upon con- 
viction, pay a fine of not exceeding $200; and the carrier knowingly carry- 
ing or transporting the same shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not 
exceeding $200. 

State Jurisdiction. — Sec. 5. That all dead bodies, or parts thereof, of 
any foreign game animals, or game or song birds, the importation of 
which is prohibited, or the dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any wild 
game animals, or game or song birds transported into any State or 
Territory, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale or storage 
therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the 
operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in 
the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same 
manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State 
or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being in- 
troduced therein in original packages or otherwise. This act shall not 
prevent the importation, transportation or sale of birds or bird plumage 
manufactured from the feathers of barnyard fowl. 




GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— MARYLAND. 



MARYLAND. 

Public General Laws, Chap. 99, Amended 1904, and with Local Laws 
Amended 1904. 

DEER.— Protected in Allegany, Jan. 1 to Oct. 15. Washington, Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. 
Garrett, always. 

SQUIRRELS.— Sec. 14. No person sliall kill any squirrel between the 1st day of 
December and the 1st day of September following. [County close seasons: Allegany, 
Jan. 1 to Sept. 1. Anne Arundel, Dec. 24 to Aug. 31. Baltimore, Dec. 24 to Nov. 1. 
Caroline, Jan. 15 to Sept. 1. Dorchester, Jan. 20 to Nov. 20. Frederick, Nov. 10 to 
Sept. 1. Somerset, Dec. 1 to Sept. 1. Kent, always. Montgomery, Dec. 15 to Aug. 1. 
Prince George, Dec. 25 to Nov. 10. Washington, Dec. 25 to Sept. 15. Wicomico, Feb. 15 
to Sept. 1.] 

WILDFOWL.— Sec. 15. No person shall kill any wild ducks e.xcept blackhead ducks, 
wild goose, wild swan, wild brant, between the 10th day of April and the 1st day of Novem- 
ber. [County close seasons: Ducks— Caroline, April 1 to Sept. 15. Somerset, April 1 to 
Oct. 1. Goose, Brant, Swan— Caroline, April 10 to Nov. 1. Goose— Somerset, April 1 
to Nov. 1. Kent, April 25 to Nov. 1. 

WILDFOWL ON FEEDING GROUNDS.— Sec. 15m. No person shall shoot at 
or do any act or thing whatsoever with the intent or purpose of frightening or driving 
wild ducks, wild geese, wild swan, wild brant or other water fowl of any kind from their 
feeding or roosting grounds. 

ON PATUXENT RIVER, TRIBUTARIES AND MARSHES.— Non-residents must 
have license, $10 plus $1 fee; members of clubs incorporated May 1, 1904 exempted. Land- 
owner may give privilege of shooting free. Close season on ducks and geese April 15 
to Aug 1. Ortolon, rail, reed bird, Jan. 1 to Sept. 10. 

EGGS, SCIENCE.— [Birds' eggs and nests may not be taken. Collectors above the 
age of 18 years may obtain a license from State Game Warden.] 

WOODDUCK, SUMMER DUCK.— Close seasons are: Dorchester, Dec. 1 to Aug. 1. 
Somerset, Jan. 1 to Sept. 1. Talbot, Jan. 1 to Sept. 10. Wicomico, Jan. 1 to Sept. 10. 
Worcester, March 1 to Sept. 1. 

DOVES.— Sec. 15-b. No person shall kill any doves between the 24th day of December 
and the 15th day of August following. County close seasons: Carroll, Frederick, 
Wicomico, at all times. Kent, Dec. 25 to Aug. 1. Somerset, Jan. 15 to Aug. 15. 
Washington, Dec. 25 to Aug. 12. 

SNIPE, PLOVER.— Sec. 15-c. No person shall kill any snipe or plover between the 
1st day of May and the 15th day of August; provided, however, that this section shall 
not apply to Worcester County. [County close seasons: Anne Arundel, Aug. 16 to 
March 10. Prince George, May 1 to Sept 10. Carroll, May 1 to Sept. 1. Wicomico, 
Jan. 15 to Nov. 15. Kent, plover, Dec. 25 to Aug. 1; snipe, June 1 to March 15. 

WATER RAIL, ORTOLAN, REED BIRD, RAIL BIRD, RICE BIRD.-Sec. 15-d. 
No person shall kill any water rail or ortolan or reed bird, rail bird or rice bird, be- 
tween the 1st day of November and the 1st day of September following. County close 
seasons: Caroline, Jan. 15 to Sept. 15. Cecil, Feb. 1 to Sept. 5. Harford, Dec. 1 to 
Sept. 1. Talbot, Jan. 1 to Sept. 10. Anne Arundel and Prince George marshes of 
Patapsco, Potomac and Patuxent Rivers, Nov. 1 to Sept. 5. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 15-h. No person shall, at any time, kill any turkey buzzard, 
wren, sparrow, bluebird, hummingbird, blue jay, migratory or other thrush, wood robin, 
redbreasted robin, martin, mockingbird, catbird, swallows, oriole, red bird, lark, indigo 
bird, chewink, pewit, sapsucker, whippoorwill, gold finsh, yellow-breasted chat, cedar 
bird, herring gull or mackerel gull, or gull of any description; provided, however, that 
nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to make it unlawful to kill at any 
time any hawk or other birds destructive to domestic poultry, or any English sparrow 

For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— MARYLAND. 



or crow or blackbird; provided, that this section shall not apply to St. Mary's county 
and Calvert county. 

SHOULDER GUN ONLY.— Sec. 15-j. No person shall shoot at or kill any of the 
birds or game animals with any other kind of gun than such as is habitually raised at 
arm's length from the shoulder. Sec. 15-1. No person shall at any time use or have 
in his possession any big or swivel gun, with the intent or for the purpose of shooting 
at or killing wild ducks, wild geese, wild swan, wild brant or other water fowl. 

NIGHT SHOOTING.— Sec. 15-k. No person shall kill or catch in the night time 
any of the birds mentioned in the preceding sections of this act. 

WOODCOCK close seasons are Dec. 25 to June 30 and Aug. 1 to Nov. 1, except in 
these counties where the close seasons are: Allegany, Jan. 1 to Oct. 15. Anne Arundel, 
Aug. 16 to June 13. Baltimore, Dec. 24 to Nov. 1. Caroline, Jan. 15 to July 4. Carroll, 
Dec. 25 to June 15. Cecil, Jan. 1 to June 10. Charles, Feb. 24 to July 5. Dorchester, 
Jan. 20 to Nov. 20. Garrett, Hartford, Dec. 1 to July 1. Kent, Dec. 25 to Nov. 1. 
Montgomery, Jan. 1 to July 1. Prince George, Jan. 2 to July 2. Queen Anne, Feb. 1 
to July 5. St. Mary's, Feb. 24 to July 4. Somerset, Jan. 1 to June 15. Talbot, Jan. 1 
to July 5. Washington, Dec. 25 to July 12. Wicomico, Feb. 1 to June 15. Worcester, 
Feb. 1 to June 30. Aug. 1 to Nov. 10. 

GROUSE, PHEASANT close seasons Dec. 25 to Nov. 1, except in these counties: 
Allegany, Jan. 1 to Oct. 15. Anne Arundel, Dec. 25 to Nov. 9. Baltimore, Dec. 24 to 
Nov. 1. Carroll, Howard, Prince George, Queen Anne, St. Mary's, Dec. 25 to Nov. 10. 
Baltimore City, Dec. 25 to Oct. 1. Cecil, Feb. 1 to Sept. 5. Dorchester, Wicomico, 
Worcester, Feb. 1 to Nov. 10. Frederick, Dec. 25 to Nov. 10. Montgomery, Jan. 1 to 
Sept. 1. Somerset, always. Washington, Dec. 25 to Aug. 12. 

QUAIL, PARTRIDGE close season Dec. 25 to Nov. 1, except in these counties: 
Allegany, Jan. 1 to Oct. 15. Anne Arundel, Dec. 25 to Nov. 9. Baltimore, Dec. 24 to 
Nov. 1. Carroll, Howard, Dec. 25 to Nov. 10. Dorchester, Jan. 20 to Nov. 20. Caroline, 
Wicomico, Worcester, Jan. 15 to Nov. 15. Queen Anne, Dec. 25 to Nov. 15. St. Mary's, 
Dec. 25 to Nov. 1. Talbot, Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. Montgomery, Dec. 20 to Nov. 1. Frederick, 
Dec. 25 to Nov. 1. Prince George, Dec. 26 to Nov. 10. Somerset, Jan. 15 to Nov. 15. 

WILD TURKEY close season Dec. 25 to Nov. 1, except in these counties: Allegany, 
Jan. 1 to Oct. 15. Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester, Feb. 1 to Nov. 10. 
Frederick, Jan. 15 to Nov. 15. Garrett, Dec. 1 to Nov. 1. Howard, Dec. 25 to Nov. 10. 
Kent, always. Montgomery, March 1 to Nov. 1. Washington, Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. No 
law in Anne Arundel, Carroll, Cecil, Harford, Queen Anne, St. Mary. 

ENGLISH, MONGOLIAN PHEASANT close season Dec. 25 to Nov. 1. Special 
county close seasons: Anne Arundel, Dec. 25 to Nov. 9. Howard, Dec. 25 to Nov. 10. 
Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester, Feb. 1 to Nov. 10. Garrett, Dec. 1 to Nov. 1. Prince 
George ("English mongrels"), Dec. 20 to Nov. 10. Somerset, always. 

RABBIT close seasons: Allegany, Jan. 1 to Oct. 15. Anne Arundel, Dec. 25 to Nov. 9. 
Baltimore, Dec. 24 to Nov. 1, also Election Day and when snow covers ground. Calvert, 
Kent, Washington, Dec. 25 to Nov. 1. Caroline, Wicomico, Worcester, Jan. 15 to Nov. 15. 
Carroll, Howard, Dec. 25 to Nov. 10. Cecil, Jan. 10 to Nov. 1. Charles, Jan. 15 to 
Oct. 15. Dorchester, Jan. 20 to Nov. 20. Frederick, Dec. 25 to Nov. 1. Garrett, Feb. 1 
to Nov. 1. Harford, Dec. 1 to Nov. 1. Montgomery, Dec. 20 to Nov. 1. Queen Anne, 
Dec. 25 to Nov. 15. St. Mary's, Jan. 15 to Nov. 1. Somerset, Jan. 1 to Nov. 15. Talbot, 
Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. Prince George, Dec. 26 to Nov. 10. 

FERRET, WEASEL.— Sec. 15-n. No person shall use any ferret or weasel for killing 
any game animals. 

EXPORT OF GAME is prohibited in Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Caroline, 
Dorchester (except as baggage not more than 18 quail, 6 rabbits, 6 woodcock, 6 squirrels; 
but not for sale), Frederick, Garrett, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester. Export for sale 
is forbidden in Calvert, Kent, Montgomery, Queen Anne, Washington. 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSES are required in these counties: Allegany, |10. Anne 

For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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Arundel— non-resident may not hunt, except by permission of land owner. Baltimore, $5 
(with photograph). Calvert. |10. Caroline, $4.50. Carroll, $10. Cecil, $10 for sink box; 
»5 for upland shooting. Charles. $20. Dorchester, $4.50. Frederick. $15. Garrett, $25. 
Harford. $10. Howard, $7.50. Kent, $15. Montgomery. $15. Trince George. $20. Queen 
Anne, $4.50. St. Mary's, $20. Somerset, $10. Talbot, $9.50. Washington, $10. Wor- 
cester, $10. 

TROUT.— Article 39.— Sec. 73. It shall not be lawful to catch any speckled brook 
trout, or any speckled river trout, except during the months of April, May, June, July 
and the first fifteen days in the month of August. [Chap. 380, Laws 1892.— Close season 
in Frederick county, January to March and September to December, inclusive. Chap. 
653.— Close season in Baltimore county, July to February, inclusive, and none to be 
taken under six inches.] 

BLACK BASS, PICKEREL, PIKE PERCH, PERCH.— Public General Laws.— Sec. 
78-a. No person shall take in any waters above where the tide ebbs and flows any black 
bass, pickerel, or pike perch, otherwise known as wall-eyed pike, and California salmon 
between the 1st of April and the 15th of June, both inclusive; nor at any time save 
only with rod, line and single hook, baited with natural bait, or tied with the artificial 
fly, or with a spoon or spinner, each equipped with a single hook; or of any size less 
than eight inches from tip of nose to end of caudal fin or tail. Sec. 78-b. No person 
shall take any white perch less than seven inches in length, or yellow perch less than 
eight inches in length, or pike less that fourteen inches in length, or rock, otherwise 
known as striped bass, or any taylor less than ten inches in length, from tip of nose to 
end of caudal fin or tail. [Does not apply to Frederick, Baltimore, Howard, Cecil. Kent, 
Queen Anne, Harford, St. Mary's Wicomico, Charles, Talbot, Worcester, Calvert, 
Somerset counties.] 

POTOMAC RIVER.— Chap. 427, Laws 1S96.— Sec. 40. It shall be unlawful to catch 
any black bass, green bass, rock bass, pike or pickerel, or wall-eyed pike (commonly 
known as salmon), between April 15 and June 1. [Applies to Potomac River only, and 
is not applicable below the Little Falls, near Washington.] 

POTOMAC RIVER TRIBUTARIES.— Sec. 43. It shall be unlawful to catch any 
black bass, green bass, pike or pickerel, or wall-eyed pike (commonly known as salmon), 
in the tributaries of the Potomac River, between April 15 and June 1. [Not applicable 
below Little Falls, near Washington, nor to certain parts of Monacacy River and 
tributaries.] 

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 

ACT OF CONGRESS, May 7, 1894.— Sec. 4. That all hunting or the killing, wounding 
or capturing at any time of any bird or wild animal, except dangerous animals, when it is 
necessary to prevent them from destroying human life or inflicting an injury, is pro- 
hibited within the limits of said Park; nor shall any fish be taken out of the waters of the 
Park in any other way than by hook and line, and then only at such seasons and in such 
times and manner as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior. 

RULES.— 1. It is forbidden to remove or injure the sediments or incrustations around 
the geysers, hot springs, or steam vents; or to deface the same by written inscription or 
otherwise, or to throw any substance into the springs or geyser vents; or to injure or 
disturb, in any manner, any of the mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders 
within the Park. 2. It is forbidden to ride or drive upon any of the geyser or hot spring 
formations, or to turn loose stock to graze in their vicinity. 3. It is forbidden to cut or 
injure any growing timber. Camping parties will be allowed to use dead or fallen timber 
for fuel. 4. Fires shall be lighted only when necessary, and completely extinguished 
when not longer required. The utmost care should be exercised at all times to avoid 
setting fire to the timber and grass. 5. Hunting, capturing, injuring, or killing any 
bird or animal within the Park is prohibited. The outfits of persons found hunting or 
in posses-sion of game killed in the Park will be subject to seizure and confiscation. 

For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— MAINE. 



MAINE. 
Revised Statutes, Chap. 32, as Amended 1905. 

LAND-LOCKED SALMON, TROUT, TOGUE, WHITE PERCH.-Sec 5. There 
shall be an annual close time for land-locked salmon, trout, togue and white perch, as 
follows: for land-locked salmon, trout and togue, from the 1st day of October until 
the ice is out of the pond, lake or river fished in, the following spring of each year, 
except on the Saint Croix River and its tributaries, and on all the waters of Kennebec 
county, in which the close time shall be from the 15th day of September until the ice 
is out of the ponds and lakes the following spring, and except Sebago Lake, and 
Long Pond, in Cumberland county, on which the close time shall be from Oct. 1st to 
April 1st; but for white perch the close time shall be from the 1st day of April to the 
1st day of July; no person shall take, catch, kill or fish for, in any manner, any land- 
locked salmon, trout, togue or white perch in any of the waters of this State, or have 
the same in possession, in close time. Sec. 1. And provided that during February, 
March and April, citizens of the State may fish for and take land-locked salmon, trout 
and togue, with not more than five set lines for each family, when fishing through the 
ice in the day time, and when under the immediate personal superintendence of the 
person fishing, and may convey them to their own homes for consumption therein but 
not otherwise; but no citizen of the State during this time shall be permitted to catch 
more than twenty pounds, or one fish, of land-locked salmon or trout, or more than 
twenty-five pounds, or one fish, of togue, in any one day. 

LIMIT OF CATCH, RANGELEY LAKES.— Laws 1905, ch. 346. It shall be unlawful 
for any person or party or occupants of any one boat, canoe, raft or other vessel or 
conveyance propelled by steam, electricity, hand or other power to catch by still or 
plug fishing, so-called, more than four trout and salmon in any one day collectively, 
nor more than two trout and salmon in any one day, individually, in the waters of 
Rangeley Lake, Richardson Lakes, Mooselucmaguntic Lake and Cupsuptic Lake situated 
in the counties of Franklin and Oxford; nor shall any one person in any one day take, 
catch and kill by any method of fishing more than fifteen pounds of trout and salmon 
in said waters, provided, however, that the taking of one additional fish when having 
less than fifteen pounds shall not be regarded as a violation of this law; nor shall any 
person, under the provisions of Section 28 of chapter 32 of the Revised Statutes, send 
more than one box of fish as therein provided once in thirty days. 

LAWFUL SIZES.— Sec. 48. Whoever kills any sea salmon or land-locked salmon less 
than 9 inches in length, or any trout less than 5 inches in length, forfeits $5. 

TACKLE. — Sec. 2. Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills or destroys any fish, with 
fish spawn or grapnel, spear, trawl, weir, seine, trap, or set lines, except when fishing 
through the ice, and then with not more than five set lines in the day time, or with any 
device, or in any other way than by the ordinary mode of angling with single baited 
hooks and lines, artificial flies, artificial minnows, artificial insects, spoon hooks and 
spinners, so-called, shall be fined. 

TRANSPORTATION, LAWFUL AMOUNT.— Sec. 3. No person shall transport 
more than twenty-five pound of land-locked salmon, trout, togue, or white perch, in all, 
at any one time; nor shall any such be transported except in the possession of the 
owner thereof, plainly labeled thereon with the owner's name and residence, except 
as is provided in Section 28 of this chapter; nor shall any corporation transport more 
than twenty-five pounds in all, of said fish, at one time, as the property of any one 
person; nor shall any person take, catch, kill, or have in possession in any one day 
more than twenty-five pounds in all, of the above named fish. Whoever has in his 
possession more than twenty-five pounds in all, of said fish, shall be deemed to have 
taken them in violation of this section; provided, however, that the taking of one fish 
additional having less than twenty-five pounds, or less than twenty pounds, when 
fishing through the ice, shall not be regarded as a violation of the law. 

SALMON.— Chap. 2S4, Laws 1901.— Sec. 43. No salmon, shad or other migratory fish 
shall be taken or fished for within 500 yards of any fishway, dam or mill race; nor shall 

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hook and line or artificial flies be used at any time within 100 yards of any fishway, dam 
or mill race; fly fishing shall be allowed up to the bridge across the Dennys River at 
Lincoln's mill, but not between said bridge and Lincoln's mill dam. Sec. 46. From the 
15th day of July to the 1st day of April following there shall be a close time for salmon, 
during which no salmon shall be taken or killed in any manner: Provided, however, 
That between the 15th days of July and September it is lawful to fish for and take 
salmon by the ordinary mode, with rod and single line. Sec. 47. Between the 1st day of 
April and the 15th day of July there shall be a weekly close time of forty-eight hours, 
from sunrise on each Saturday morning to sunrise on the following Monday morning, 
during which no salmon, shad, alewives or bass shall be taken. 'Ihis section does not 
apply to the Kennebec, Androscoggin or Penobscot Rivers or their tributaries, or to the 
St. Croix River below the breakwater at the ledge: Provided, however. That the weekly 
close time on the Damariscotta River below the bridge at Damariscotta shall be from 
sunset on each Saturday night to 12 o'clock on the following Sunday night. 

JACK LIGHT, SPEAR, NET.— Sec. 9 [as amended 1901]. The having in possession 
of- any jack light, spear, trawl, or net, other than a dip net, in any camp, lodge or 
place of resort for hunters or fishermen, in the inland territory of the State, shall be 
prima facie evidence that the same are kpt for unlaw-ful use; and they may be seized 
by any officer authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws. 

CARIT50U.— Sec. 18. No person shall, within six years from Oct. 15. 1905, kill or have 
in possession any caribou or parts thereof. 

MOOSE. — Sec. 16. No person shall at any time kill or have in possession any cow 
or calf moose; and the term "calf moose," as herein used, shall be construed to mean 
that these animals are calves until they are at least one year old, and have at 
least two prongs or tines not less than three inches long to each of their horns. No 
person shall, between the 1st day of December and the 15th day of October kill or have 
in possession any bull moose or part thereof, and no person shall, between Oct. 15th 
and Dec. 1st, kill or have in possession more than one bull moose or part thereof. 

DEER.— Sec. 19. No person shall, except as hereinbefore provided, kill or have in 
possession any deer, or part thereof, between Dec. 15th and Oct. 1st next following; no 
person shall between Oct. 1st and Dec. 15th next following, except as hereinafter pro- 
vided, kill or have in possession more than two deer or parts thereof; a person lawfully 
killing a deer in open season shall have a reasonable time in which to transport the 
same to his home and may have the same in possession at his home in close season. 

LOCAL DEER SEASONS.— [Open seasons in York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, 
Knox, Waldo and Kennebec counties, during November, and only one deer can be 
killed in either of these counties. These provisions do not apply to the towns of 
York, Kittcry, Eliot and Wells in York county, or to Bath, West Bath and Phippsburg, 
in Sagadahoc county, in which towns and cities it is unlawful to kill any deer at any 
time. Close time in tow-n of Swan's Island, Ilancock county until Dec. 15, 1908. Open 
season in the towns of Eden, Mt. Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor, from 
Nov. 15th to Dec. 15th. Close season on islands within limits of the town of Isle au 
Haut until Oct. 1, 1907. Open time in Androscoggin county during October.] 

DOGS, JACK LIGHTS, ETC. Sec. 18. No person shall at any time hunt, catch, take, 
kill, or destroy, with dogs, jack lights, artificial lights, snares, or traps, any moose, 
deer or caribou. Sec. 21. Any person may, at any time, lawfully kill any dog which 
hunts or chases a moose, caribou or deer, or any dog kept or used for that purpose. 

SQUIRRELS.— [Protected in Knox county at all times.] 

GAME BIRDS.-Sec. 5. There shall be for game birds an annual close time in 
which it shall be unlawful to kill or have them in possession, as follows: For wood 
duck, dusky duck, commonly called black duck, teal, and any and all ducks know-n as 
gadwall or gray duck, mallard, widgeon or baldpate, shoveler, pintail or sprigtail, redhead, 
scaup duck or greater blue-bill, lesser scaup duck or lesser blue-bill, golden eye or 
whistler, buffle head, ruddy duck or broad bill, from the 1st day of December to the 
1st day of the following September of each year; for ruffed grouse, commonly called 

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partridge and woodcock, from the 1st day of December to September 15th next following 
of each year; for plover, snipe and sandpipers, from the 1st day of May to the 1st day of 
August of each year; and it shall be unlawful to kill or have in possession at any time any 
quail. No person shall, in any one day, kill or have in possession more than 15 of each 
variety of the above named birds, except sandpipers, the number of which shall not ex- 
ceed 70 in any one day, during the respective open season for each; nor shall any person 
at any time kill or have in possession any rutfed grouse, commonly called partridge, 
woodcock, woodduck, dusky duck, commonly called black duck, teal, and any and all ducks 
known as gadwall or gray duck, mallard, widgeon or baldpate, shoveler, pintail or 
sprigtail, redhead, scaup duck or greater blue-bill, lesser scaup duck or lesser blue-bill, 
golden eye, or whistler, buffle head, ruddy duck or broad bill, except for his own con- 
sumption within this State, except as hereinafter provided; nor shall any person or 
corporation carry or transport from place to place any of the birds mentioned in this 
section, in close time, nor in open season, unless open to view, tagged and plainly 
labeled with the owner's name and residence and accompanied by him, unless tagged 
in accordance with Section 28 of this chapter, under the same penalty. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— No person shall kill or catch or have in his or her possession, 
living or dead, any wild bird, other than a game bird. The English, or European house 
sparrow, the common crow and the hawks and owls, mudhens, so-called, kingfishers, 
and blue herons, so-called, are not included among the birds herein protected; and for 
the purpose of this act, the following only shall be considered game birds; the Anatidae, 
commonly known as swans, geese, brant, and river and sea ducks; the Rallida;, commonly 
known as rails, coots, and gallinules; the Limicolse, commonly known as shore birds, 
plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tatlers and curlews; the Gallinse, 
commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges and 
quail. Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed to affect in any way the 
nrotection of game birds, as provided in Sections 7 and 9. Sec. 12, ch. 132, P. L., 1905. 
It shall be unlawful to kill an eagle or vulture at any time under a penalty of JIO and 
costs for each offense. 

WILDFOWL METHODS.— Sec. 9. It is unlawful to take any wild duck, of any 
variety, quail, ruffed grouse, or partridge, woodcock, or any bird, except by the usual 
method of sporting with firearms. It is unlawful to hunt, kill, or destroy any wild duck, 
at any time, with the aid of jack lights, or any artificial light. 

TRANSPORTATION.— Sec. 25. No person or corporation shall carry or transport 
from place to place any moose, or deer, or part thereof, in close time, nor in open time 
unless open to view, tagged, and plainly labeled with the name and residence of the 
owner thereof, and accompanied by him. Whoever lawfully kills a bull moose shall, 
while the same, or any part thereof, is being transported, preserve and transport it, with 
the evidence on the moose of the sex of the same. [See Sec. 22 below.] 

TAGGED GAME.— Sec. 28. Any resident of Maine who has lawfully killed a 
moose or a deer, or any person who has lawfully in his possession one trout, one 
togue, one land-locked salmon, or one white perch, or ten pounds of either kind of these 
fish, or one pair of game birds, may send the same to his home or to any hospital in 
the State, without accompanying the same, by purchasing of the duly constituted agent 
therefor a tag, paying for a moose $5, for a deer $2, for a trout, togue or land-locked 
salmon, $1 for each, or $1 for each ten pounds of the same, and 50 cents for one white 
perch or ten pounds of the same, and 50 cents for a pair of game birds. The com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game may appoint agents in convenient localities who 
may sell these tags, under such rules and regulations as the commissioners may adopt. 

NON-RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSES.-Sec. 22. Persons not bona fide residents 
of the State, and actually domiciled therein, shall not kill any bull moose or deer, or 
ducks, partridges, woodcock or other birds or wild animals at any time without having 
first procured a license therefor. Such licenses shall be issued by the commissioners 
of inland fisheries and game, upon application in writing and payment of $15 to hunt 
bull moose, deer, ducks, partridges, woodcock and other birds and wild animals during 
their respective open seasons in October, November and December. But to hunt ducks. 

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gartridges, woodcock and other birds and wild animals, during their respective open 
season prior to Oct. 1st, a license fee of |5 shall be paid annually. A person having 
paid the fee of $5 may procure a license to hunt bull moose and deer by paying JIO 
additional. Such license shall entitle the purchaser td take to his home, in addition 
as now provided, properly tagged with the tag detached from his license, and open to 
view, ten partridges, ten duck and ten woodcock that he has himself lawfully killed, and 
under such rules and regulations to be established by the commissioners and approved 
by the governor and council, as may be required to carry out the true intent of this 
act and not inconsistent herewith. 

NON-RESIDENT 1\1.'\Y EXrORT.-Sec. 23. The holder of a non-resident hunter's 
license shall be entitled to ofifer for transportation and have transported, within or 
without this State, by any railroad company, express company, boat, or other trans- 
portation company, the carcass of one bull moose, or part of the carcass of one bull 
moose that he himself has lawfully killed, on the "moose" coupon attached to such 
license; also the carcass of one deer, or part of the carcass of one deer, that he himself 
has lawfully killed on each of the "deer" coupons attached to his said license. No 
person shall transport any bull moose or deer, or parts thereof, within the State for 
any non-resident, otherwise than as provided herein. 

NONRESIDENTS MUST EMPLOY GUIDES.-Sec. 20. Non-residents of the State 
shall not enter upon the wild lands of the State and camp or kindle fires thereon while 
engaged in hunting or fishing, without being in charge of a registered guide, during 
the months of May, June, July, August, September, October and November, and no 
registered guide shall, at the same time, guide, or be employed by, more than five 
non-residents in hunting. 

REGISTRATION OF GUIDES.— Sec. 32. No person shall engage in the business 
of guiding, either for inland fishing or forest hunting, until he has caused his name, 
age, residence to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the commissioners 
of inland fisheries and game, and has procured a certificate from said commissioners. 
A fee of $1 shall be paid annually for the registration as herein provided. No person 
shall receive a certificate as a general guide unless he be at least twenty years of age, 
of good repute. Every non-resident registered as a guide shall pay a fee of $20; the 
commissioners may, at their discretion, refuse to issue any certificates of registration 
after Oct. 20 of each year, and every certificate issued shall expire with the calendar 
year. 

LICENSED CAMP PROPRIETORS AND HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS.-Sec. 31. 
No person shall build, occupy, maintain or keep a sporting camp, lodge or place of 
resort for inland hunting or fishing parties in any place, nor engage in the business 
of hunting or trapping any of the fur bearing animals of the State in any of the 
unorganized townships or wild lands of the State without first procuring a license 
therefor from the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, and paying a fee therefor 
of $5. 

CAMP FIRES. — P. S., Chap. 7, Sec. 55. Whoever by himself, or by his servant, agent, 
or guide, as as the servant, agent, or guide of any other person, shall build a camp, 
cooking, or other fire, or use an abandoned camp, cooking or other fire in or adjacent 
to any woods in this State, shall, before leaving such fire, totally extinguish the same, 
and upon failure to do so such person shall be punished by a fine of |50, provided that 
such fires built upon the sea beach in such situation that they cannot spread into forest 
wood or cultivated lands or meadows, shall not be construed as prohibited by this act. 

SUNDAY.— Sec. 21. Sunday is a close time, on which it is not lawful to hunt, kill, 
or destroy game or birds of any kind, under the penalties imposed therefor during 
other close time. 

SHOOTING HUMAN BEINGS.-Chap. 263, Laws I901.-Sec. 1. Whoever, while on a 
hunting trip, or in the pursuit of wild game or game birds, negligently or carelessly 
shoots and wounds, or kills, any human being, shall be punished by imprisonment not 
exceeding ten years, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000. 

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MINNESOTA. 
Act of 1905. 

Sec. 23.— OVVNERSIill' IN THE STATE.— No person shall at any time or in any 
manner acquire any property in, or subject to his dominion or control, any of the birds, 
animals or fish or any part thereof of the kinds herein mentioned, but they shall always 
and under all circumstances be and remain the property of this State; except, that by 
killing, catching or taking the same in the manner and for the purposes herein 
authorized, and during the periods when their killing is not herein prohibited, the same 
may be used by any person at the time, in the manner and for the purpose herein 
expressly authorized; and whenever any person kills, catches, takes, ships or has in 
possession, or under control, any of the birds, animals or fish, or any part thereof, 
mentioned in this chapter, at a time or in a manner prohibited by this chapter, such 
person shall thereby forfeit and lose all his right to the use and possession of such 
bird, animal or fish, or any part thereof, and the State shall be entitled to the sole 
possession thereof. 

Sec. 25. MANNER OF TAKING.-No person shall at any time, catch, take or kill 
any of the birds or animals mentioned in this chapter, in any other manner than by 
shooting them with a gun held to the shoulder of the person discharging the same. 
Sec. 26. No person shall at any time set, lay, prepare, or have in possession any trap, 
snare, artificial light, net, bird, lime, swivel gun or set gun or any contrivance whatever, 
for the purpose of catching, taking or killing any of the game animals or birds in this 
chapter mentioned, except that decoys and stationary blinds may be used in hunting 
wild geese, brant and ducks. 

Sec. 27.-SHOOTING AFTER DARK, SINK-BOATS.-No person shall at any time, 
hunt with or shoot from any boat, canoe or contrivance or device whatever on any of 
the waters in this State between dark and daylight, and no person shall at any time 
make use of, hunt with or shoot from any floating battery, sink boat, sunken barrels, 
boxes, tubs, floating blinds or any similar device whatever, on any of the waters of this 
State. 

Sec. 28.-SHOOTING WITH DOCS.-No person shall hunt or kill any of the 
animals in this chapter mentioned, with any dog or dogs. Any dog or dogs used in 
violation of any of the provisions of this section is hereby declared to be and is a 
public nuisance, and it shall be lawful for any person to kill any dog or dogs so being 
used. The use or running of either pointer or setter dogs in fields or up n lands 
frequented by or in which game birds may be found during the month of August, 
or at any time except during the open season for killing game birds, and the keeping 
and maintaining of any dog at or about any hunting camp or lumber camp used by 
hunters, situated in any locality frequented by deer, moose or caribou, is hereby 
prohibited and made unlawful. 

Sec. 29.-ENTERING GROWING GRAIN.-No person shall at any time enter 
into any growing or standing grain not his own with intent to take, or kill and bird, 
or animal nor permit any dog with which he shall be hunting to do so for such 
purpose, without permission from the owner or person in charge thereof. No person 
shall at any time enter upon any land not his own with intent to take or kill any 
birds or animal, after being notified by the owner or occupant thereof not to do so. 

Sec. 30.-GAME KILLED IN ANOTHER STATE.-No person shall at any time 
have in his possession or under his control within this State any bird, animal or fish, 
or any part thereof, which has been caught, taken or killed outside of this State at a 
time when it is unlawful to have in possession or under control such birds, animals or 
fish, or parts thereof, if caught, taken or killed in this State, or which have been 
unlawfully taken or killed outside this State, or unlawfully shipped therefrom into this 
State. 

Sec. 32.-GAME BIRDS, SEASON FOR KILLING.-No person shall hunt, 
take, kill, ship, convey or cause to be shipped or transported by common or private 

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carrier, to any person either within or without the State, expose for sale, sell to any 
one, have in possession with intent to sell, or have in possession or under control, at 
any time, any turtle dove, snipe, prairie chicken, pinnated, white-breasted or sharp- 
tailed grouse, quail, partridge, ruffed grouse, Chinese, ring-neck or English pheasant, 
wild duck of any variety, wild goose of any variety, brant, or any variety of aquatic 
fowl, whatever, or any part thereof, except — 1. That any turtle dove, snipe, prairie 
chicken, pinnated, white-breasted or sharp-tailed grouse, woodcock, upland plover and 
golden plover may be killed and had in possession between the 1st day of September 
and the 1st day- of November following. 2. That any quail, partridge, ruffed grouse 
or pheasant, other than Mongolian, Chinese ring-neck or English pheasant, may be 
killed or had in possession between the 1st day of October and the 1st day of December 
following. 3. That wild duck of any variety, wild goose of any variety, brant or any 
variety of aquatic fowl, whatever, may be killed and had in possession between the 
1st day of September and the 1st day of December following. And when any of the 
birds mentioned in thisi section have been lawfully caught, taken, killed, or had in 
possession within the time herein allowed, they may be had in possession for five (5) days 
thereafter. But no person shall in any one day take or kill more than fifteen (15) 
birds or have in his possession at any time more than forty-five (45) turtle doves, prairie 
chicken, white-breasted or sharp-tailed grouse, quail, partridge, ruffed grouse or pheasant, 
woodcock, upland plover, golden plover or any or all of the same combined, or fifty 
(50) snipe, wild duck, goose, brant, or any variety of aquatic fowl, whatever, or any or 
all of the same combined. 

Sec. 33.— DEER AND MOOSE.— No person shall hunt, catch, take, kill, ship, convey 
or cause to be shipped or transported by common or private carrier, to any person, 
either within or without the State, or purchase, expose for sale, have in possession with 
intent to sell to any person, or have in possession or under control at any time, any 
elk, moose, caribou, deer or fawn, or any part thereof, including the hides and horns, 
except, as hereinafter provided: Provided, That deer may be killed between Nov. 10th 
and Nov. 30th of the same year, and any deer or any part thereof, may be had in 
possession by any person during the same time; but no person shall kill or have in 
possession during said time more than two (2) deer, or parts thereof; and provided 
further, that any person who is lawfully in possession of any deer, or any part thereof, 
may ship or cause the same to be shipped in the manner provided for by this chapter, 
but not otherwise, and provided further, that male antlered moose may be killed be- 
tween Nov. lOthl and Nov. 30th of the same year, and any such male moose, or part 
thereof, may be had in possession by any person during the time aforesaid, but no person 
shall kill or have in possession during said time more than one (1) male moose, or part 
thereof; and provided further, that when any deer or such male moose, or any part 
thereof, are lawfully in the possession of any person as provided for in this chapter, such 
person may continue in the possession of the same for five (5) days after the time 
herein limited for killing said animals; and provided further, that no cow or female 
moose can be killed or had in possession at any time. 

Sec. 34.— RESIDENT LICENSE, SHIPMENT OF GAME.— Every resident of this 
State is prohibited from hunting, taking or killing any game bird or game animal, 
unless he shall have first procured a license therefor from the county auditor of the 
county in which he resides; except that any citizen of this State may hunt, take or kill 
any of the game birds mentioned in this chapter in the county in which he is a 
bona fide resident without having a license to so hunt. Said auditor shall upon 
application issue to such person a license to hunt game animals and game birds, upon 
the payment to him of a license fee of $1.00, which license shall expire on the 31st day 
of December following its issuance. Every such applicant shall prove to the satisfaction 
of the county auditor that he is a bona fide resident of this State, and shall state, 
under oath, his name, residence and post-office address. Only one of such licenses 
shall be issued to any person and it shall not be transferable, and it is hereby made 
the duty of such licensee to exhibit the same to any person upon request. Any resident 
who has paid said fee and procured such license may, during the open season, kill 
one (1) male antlered moose, two (2) deer and also game birds, in the manner and 

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subject to the limitations and condition prescribed by this chapter, and may ship by 
common carrier in the manner herein provided, and not otherwise to any point in the 
county in which he resides, one (1) male antlered moose and two (2) deer, or any part 
therof, and fifty (50) game birds, in two shipments of not to exceed twenty-five (25) 
birds each, so lawfully shot or had in his possession. Said game animals and game 
birds may be shipped by said licensee to himself at his place of residence by common 
carrier, upon attaching tO' such game animals or any part thereof, or game birds, 
respectively, Section "B" of said coupon: Provided, however, that nothing in this 
chapter contained shall be deemed or construed tO' prevent any resident of this State, 
from personally carrying with him, as baggage, on any train or conveyance, any game 
birds or fish which may be legally in his possession. 

Sec. 35.— NON-RESIDENT LICENSE, SHIPMENT OF GAME.— Every person not 
a resident of this State is prohibited from hunting, taking or killing any game bird 
or game animal unless he shall have first procured a license therefor from the Game and 
Fish Commission. Said commission shall upon application issue to any non-resident, 
a license to hunt game animals, upon the payment to it of a license fee of $25.00, and 
to hunt game birds upon the payment to it of a license fee of $10.00, which license shall 
expire on the 31st day of December following its issuance. Any non-resident who has 
paid said fee and procured such license to hunt game animals, may, during the open 
season, kill in the manner authorized by this chapter, one (1) male antlered moose and 
one (1) deer, and also ship such deer so killed by him to his said place of residence 
outside the State, upon attaching to such game animal or any part thereof, respectively, 
Sections "B" and "C" of said coupon, and ship such moose to any place, within the 
State by attaching Section "B" of said coupon. Any non-resident who has paid said 
fee and procured a license to hunt game birds, may hunt, take and kill game birds 
in the manner authorized by this chapter, during the open season, subject to the 
limitations applicable to residents of this State and may ship to his place of residence 
outside this State twenty-five (25) game birds so lawfully shot and taken by him, upon 
attaching to such game birds Sections "B" and "C" of said coupon. Said licenses shall not 
be transferable, and it is hereby made the duty of said licensee to exhibit the same 
to any person upon request. 

[Sec. 37.— RETAINING GAME.— A resident may on application to the commission 
retain beyond the open season game of which he is lawfully in possession.] 

Sec. 38.-MINK, MUSKRAT, OTTER, BEAVER.-No person shall catch, take or 
kill any mink, muskrat, otter or beaver between the 1st day of April and the 1st day 
of November following: Provided, That when any of the animals mentioned in this 
section are doing damage to or destroying any property the persons whose property 
is being damaged or destroyed may kill them at any time. 

Sec. 39.- HARMLESS BIRDS, GAME BIRDS DEFINED.— No person shall catch, 
take, kill or have in possession or under control any fish for any purpose whatever, 
purchase, offer or expose for sale, sell to any one, have in possession with intent to 
sell, or have in possession or under control at any time, living or dead, any wild 
birds other than a game bird, nor any part thereof, and for the purpose of this 
chapter the following only shall be considered game birds. The Anatidje, commonlv 
known as swan, geese, brant, river and sea ducks; the Limicolae, commonly known as 
plover, snipe and woodcock; the Gallinae, commonly known as grouse, prairie chickens 
pheasants, partridges and quail: Provided, That blackbirds, crows, English sparrows, 
sharp-shinned hawks. Cooper hawks and great horned owls may be killed and had 
in possession at any time; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent 
the keeping' and sale of song birds as domestic pets. 

Sec. 40.-FISH MAY BE TAKEN. WHEN.-No person shall catch, take, kill or have 
in possession or under control for any purpose whatever, any of the fish hereinafter 
mentioned within the periods herein limited, to-wit: Any variety of trout, except lake 
trout, between the 1st day of September and the 15th day of April following, any black, 
gray or Oswego bass between the 1st day of March and the 29th day of May following; 

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any variety of pike, muskallonge, croppie, perch, sunfish, sturgeon, catfish or any other 
variety of fish between the 1st day of March and the 1st day of May following. 

Sec. 41.— MANNER OF TAKING.— No person shall catch, take or kill more than 
twenty-five (25) fish, except sunfish, perch, pickerel or bullheads in any one day, nor in any 
other manner than by angling for them with a hook and line held in the hand, or 
attached to a rod so held, nor with more than one line or with more than one hook 
attached hereto; and no person shall have in his possession any fish caught, taken or 
killed in any of the waters of this State, except as provided in this chapter: Provided, 
That pickerel, suckers, redhorse, carp and bullheads may be taken with a spear without 
limit at any time, and artificial lights may be used in so doing. 

Sec. 44.— FISHING NEAR FISHWAYS.— No person shall catch, take or kill any 
fish in any lake or stream within four hundred (400) feet of any fishway, or iiave in his 
possession or under his control any fish so caught, taken or killed. 

Sec. 47.-SALE, EXPORT OF FISH.— No person shall have in possession for sale 
any brook trout, or gray, black or Oswego bass, at any time, or ship, cause to be 
shipped, or have in possession with intent to ship to any person, either within or 
without the State, any such fish, or have any black, gray or Oswego bass in his 
possession during the season for taking the samp, or any trout during the closed season, 
except they are caught in a private hatchery. 

Sec. 48.— SIZE OF FISH TO BE TAKEN.— No person shall at any time, catch, 
take, kill, ship or cause to be shipped to any person within or without the State, 
except minnows for bait, rock bass, sunfish and bullheads that are less than six inches 
in length. Any person catching such fish shall at once return same to the water 
from which they are taken with as little injury as possible. No person shall take, kill, 
have in possession for sale or with intent to sell, offer or expose for sale or have in 
possession or under control for any purpose whatever any lake trout or whitefish of 
less than two pounds, round or undressed weight, or one and one-half pounds, dressed 
weight, or any wall-eyed pike of less than fourteen inches in length or one pound 
round or undressed weight, or any muscallonge less than thirty inches in length, or 
any blue pike or saugers of less than ten inches in length. Measurement in each case 
to be made from the tip of the snout to the fork of the tail. Any such fish when caught 
shall be immediately returned to the water. 

Sec. 50.— SHIPPING OUTSIDE OF STATE.— No person shall ship, have in 
possession with intent to ship or cause to be shipped beyond the borders of this State, 
any fish of the kinds mentioned in this chapter: Provided, That any non-resident of 
this State who is desirous of taking any fish beyond its borders for his personal use 
may carry with him on the same train or conveyance, not to exceed fifty pounds of 
fish caught by him. Provided further, that all boxes and packages containing fish, or 
all boxes, bags, or packages of any description used in shipping fish, either within or 
without this State, shall be plainly marked with the name and address of the consignor 
and consignee, and with the contents of the package. 

Sec. 55.-GAME AND FISH TAKEN IN ONE DAY.-No person shall wantonly 
waste or destroy any of the birds, animals or fish of the kinds mentioned in this chapter. 
The catching, taking or killing of more than fifteen birds by any one person in any one 
day, or the catching, taking or killing of more than twenty-five fish by any one person 
in any one day, except fish caught, taken or killed in the Mississippi River or 
International Waters with nets or seines, as by this chapter permitted, shall be deemed 
a wanton waste and destruction of all such birds or fish caught, taken or killed in 
excess of such number. 

Sec. 56.— STATE PARKS.— No person shall pursue, hunt, take, catch, or kill any 
wild bird or animal of any kind within the limits of any territory set apart, designated, 
used or maintained as a State public park, or within one-half of the outer limits 
thereof. No person shall have in his possession within any such park or within one-half 
mile of the outer limits thereof, any gun, revolver, or other firearm unless the same is 
unloaded, and except after the same has been sealed by the park commissioner or a 
deputy appointed by him, and except also such gun or other firearm at all times during 
which it may be lawfully had in such park remains so sealed and unloaded. 

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MONTANA. 
Act of 1905. 

GAME PROTECTED ALWAYS.— Sec. 2. Any person who wilfully shoots or kills 
any moose, bison, caribou, buffalo, antelope or beaver shall be punished: Provided, 
however, that it shall be lawful for any person to kill beaver upon his own premises, 
when such killing is necessary for the protection of said premises, but such person 
must, at the time of such killing, have a permit from the State Game and Fish Warden 
authorizing such killing. Any person who wilfully shoots or kills any quail, or 
Chinese pheasant, shall be punished. 

ELK.— Sec. 3. Any person who between the 1st day of December of one year and 
the 1st day of September of the following year wilfully kills any elk, or who in a 
single open season shall kill more than one elk, shall be punished. 

DEER, ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT AND MOUNTAIN SHEEP.— Sec. 4. Any 
person who between December 1st of any year and September 1st of the following year 
wilfully kills any deer. Rocky Mountain goat, or mountain sheep, or who in the open 
season of any calendar year kills more than three deer, one Rocky Mountain goat and 
one mountain sheep, shall be punished. 

DOGS. — Sec. 5. Any person who hunts, chases, or runs with dogs, any of the animals 
mentioned in Sections 2, 3 and 4 of this act shall be punished. 

GROUSE, PRAIRIE CHICKEN, FOOL HEN, PHEASANT, PARTRIDGE, SAGE 
HEN OR TURTLE DOVE.— Sec. 6. Every person who between the 1st day of 
December of any year and the 1st day of September of the following year wilfully 
kills any grouse, prairie chicken, fool hen, sage hen, pheasant, partridge or turtle dove, 
or who during the open season kills more than ten grouse or prairie chickens, or fool 
hens, or pheasants, or sage hens, or partridges, or turtle doves in any one day shall 
be punished. 

WILD GEESE, DUCKS. BRANTS AND SWAN.— Sec. 7.— Every person who wilfully 
kills any wild geese, wild ducks, brant or swan between the 1st day of December 
of any year and the 1st day of September of the following year, shall be punished. 

SONG BIRDS. — Sec. 7. Every person who wilfully kills any meadow lark, blue 
bird, thrush, oriole, woodpecker, mocking bird, gold-finch, snow-bird, cedar-bird, stork, 
or any other of the small birds known as singing birds, shall be punished. 

RESTRAINING FOR SALE OR DOMESTICATION.-Sec. 8. That any person 
who shall wilfully catch, trap or otherwise restrain, for the purpose of sale or 
domestication or any other purpose, any buffalo, elk, moose, or mountain sheep within 
the State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
FISH. — There is no close time as toi angling. 

SALE OF FISH. — Sec. 9. Every person who in any way catches any trout, grayling or 
black bass, or who shall remove the eggs or spawn from any of said fish for speculative 
purposes, for market or for sale, or who shall sell, or offer for sale, any trout, grayling, 
black bass, or eggs, or spawn therefrom, shall be punishable: Provided, however, that 
this section shall not apply to fish caught in private ponds by the owners thereof. 

SALE.— Sec. 19. Every person who' shall sell or offer for sale, any of the birds or 
animals or any part thereof mentioned in Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this act 
[Sections 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 of Act of 1905], is punishable. 

HUNGER.— Sec. 24. When it is shown that any violation of the provisions of this 
act was for the purpose of preventing great suffering by hunger, of any person or 
persons, which could not otherwise have been avoided, the provisions of this act shall 
not apply to said case. 

LICENSES.— Sub. H. B. 120, S. L. 1905.— Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any male person 
or persons over 15 years of age to hunt or fish within this State until a license is 
first procured as provided for in this act, which license must be produced upon the 
request of any game warden or peace officer for inspection. The possession of a gun 
or rod in the fields, or in the forests, or on or about the waters of this State by 

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any non-resident of this State, without first securing the license required by this act, 
shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of its provisions. 

RESIDENT LICENSE.— Sec. 4. Every person who is a bona fide resident of the 
State of Montana and who desires to hunt, take, kill or catch, any of the game 
animals, game birds or fish of this State, must first obtain a license therefor of the 
State game and fish warden, deputy gamei and fish warden, or a justice of the peace. 
Every application for such resident's license must pay to the officer issuing such license 
the sum of $1.00. Any resident who shall hunt, take, kill or catch any game or fish, 
or any part thereof, without being at the time in possession of a resident's license as 
provided for in this act, shall be punished: Provided, however, that nothing in this 
act shall prevent a bona fide resident of this State from hunting in his own field during 
the open season, or fishing in the waters running through the same or adjacent thereto, 
without first obtaining a license therefor: Provided further, that a license under the 
provisions of this act issued to the head of a family shall include therein all female 
members of his family, as well as all male members thereof under 21 years of age. 
Sec. 7. To be a bona fide resident under and within the meaning of this act, a person 
must have resided in this State for the six monts last past, when applying for his 
license: Provided, however, that all soldiers of the United States Army stationed at 
any post or fort in Montana shall come under and within the provisions of this section. 
NON-RESIDENT LICENSES.— Sec. 6. Every person who is not a bona fide resi- 
dent of this State, and who' desires to hunt, take, kill, catch, or have in his possession, 
any of the gamie animals, game birds, or fish of this State, must first obtain a license 
therefor of the State game and fish warden or a deputy game and fish warden. Every 
applicant for such license shall, upon applying for the same, state his occupation, 
residence and post-oftice address, and shall place his signature in ink upon such 
license in a place designated by the officer issuing the same, which signature must be 
made in the presence of such officer. The applicant shall pay the State game and 
fish warden or deputy issuing the license, the sum of $25.00 for a "General License," 
which shall entitle the holder to hunt large or big game, small and feathered game, and 
to fish; or the sum of $10.00 for a "Limited License," which shall entitle the holder 
only to hunt small and feathered game and to fish. Any non-resident of this State 
who shall hunt, take, kill, catch, or have in his possession, any of the game animals, 
game birds or fish of this State, or any part thereof, without having taken out and 
being at the time in possession of a non-resident's license as provided for in this act, 
and in the case of large or big game, being entitled by virtue of the same to humt 
for large or big game, shall be punished. 

EXPIRATION OF ALL LICENSES.-Sec. 8. All licenses shall expire on the 31st 
day of December next after their issuance, and shall be non-transferable. Any person 
who shall at any time alter, or change, or loan, or transfer to another, or have in his 
possession while hunting, or fishing, the license issued to another, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor. If any game warden or other peace officer has reason to 
believe; that a license is in the hands of a person other than the lawful licensee, such 
officer may require such party having the license to identify himself, and any such 
person refusing on such demand to identify himself, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
LICENSE TO GUIDE.— S. B. 30, S. L., 1903.— Sec. 10. No person shall engage in 
the business of guiding as the term is commonly understood, without first having pro- 
cured from the State game and fish warden, a guide's license. Any competent person, 
who is a bona fide citizen of the State of Montana, shall, upon the presentation of an 
affidavit, stating that the applicant is of good moral character and responsible, and 
signed by three taxpayers of the county in which the applicant lives; and by the 
applicant signing the oath of office of a deputy State game warden, and making the 
payment of $10.00 to the State game warden, receive from him a guide's license, which 
shall be good for one year only: Provided, that upon payment of $10.00 annually said license 
may be renewed. Such license shall state the name, age, and place of residence of 
the holder, and shall further recite that the holder of such license is a person of good 
moral character. Every person acting as a guide in this State shall be a deputy 

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game and fish warden, and shall file with the State game and fish warden his oath of 
office as such deputy game warden. Sec. 11. Any person acting as a guide for any 
person or party shall be equally responsible with such person or party, for any viola- 
tion of the law, and any such guide who shall wilfully fail or refuse to report any 
violation of the law, by the said person or party employing him, shall be liable to the 
penalties as hereinafter provided for. Sec. 13. Any person who shall, for pay, aid or 
assist any person, or party in locating, pursuing, hunting or killing any of the game 
birds or animals mentioned in this act, shall be deemed a guide within the meaning 
of this section. Sec. 13. Whenever a guide is employed by any person or party, such 
guide shall at the expiration of the period of the time for which he was employed, make 
a written statement to the State game and fish 'warden, stating the number of days 
he was employed, the number of persons guided, their names, residences, and the 
number of each kind of game killed; and if non-residents, the number of their license. 
Sec. 12. Any person who shall engage in the business of packing for hunting parties, 
as the term is commonly understood, or who shall for pay, accompany such party as 
guide, packer or cook, shall be considered a guide and shall come within the require- 
ments: Provided, however, it shall be necessary only for one of the persons above 
named, with each and every hunting party, to have fulfilled the requirements of this 
section. 

TAXIDERMIST'S LICENSE.— S. B. 30, S. L., 1903.— Sec. 15. Any person who shall 
engage in conducting any taxidermist business, as the term is generally understood, or 
any person who conducts a business for the purpose of mounting, preserving or pre- 
paring any of the dead bodies of any of the birds or animals, or any part thereof, 
mentioned in the game laws of this State, must first obtain from the State game and 
fish warden a taxidermist's license, such license to be taken out annually and shall 
cost $25.00 per annum. Such persons shall on the first day of each month make a 
written report to the State game and fish warden of all the articles of game, the kind 
and number of each, by whom owned and residence of owner, received during the past 
month, also of all the articles of game shipped and to whom and where shipped during 
the last month; also the amount and kind of each on hand on the last day of the 
month, and by whom owned and owner's address. 

SHIPMENTS OF GAME.— S. B. 30, S. L. 1903.— Sec. 3. It is unlawful, and is hereby 
prohibited, for any person, or persons, to ship or take out of the State any of the 
birds or game animals, or any part thereof, except as herein provided for. Sec. 4. 
Any resident of this State who desires to ship out of the State any of the birds or 
animals, or parts thereof, mentioned in said act, during the open season for the killing 
of the same, the same having been killed lawfully, shall first procure a permit from 
the State game and fish warden, said permit stating the name of the consignee and 
consignor, destination, and number and kind of game that is shipped, and said permit 
shall be presented to the transportation company with the consignment of game. Sec. 5. 
Any non-resident of this State who has procured a hunter's license, and who desires 
to ship out of the State any of the birds or animals, or any part thereof, mentioned 
in this act, during the open season for killing the same, the same having been 
killed lawfully, shall present to the transportation company his license, with the con- 

NOTICE. — Under the new regulations no resident or non-resident can secure a ship- 
ping permit from this office unless he be in possession of either a resident's or non- 
resident's hunting and fishing license. Every non-resident, as well as resident must 
have a permit for each and every shipment of game out of the State. All shipping 
permits must be accompanied by the license when presented to the shipping agent and 
the agent shall make his endorsements on said license as provided for in Section 6 
of S. B. No. 30, S. L. 1903. In making application for a shipping permit the applicant 
will give the number of his license, the number and kind of articles to be shipped and 
their description, for what purpose the same are being shipped, the party's name and 
address to whom shipped, and inclose 50 cents for each and every permit. If the 
permit be not granted the money will be returned to the sender. — W. F. SCOTT, State 
Game and Fish Warden, Helena, Montana. 

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signment of game to be shipped, provided that no one person shall ship in one year 
more game than it is lawful for one person to kill in a single open season. Sec. 10. 
The State game and fish warden shall hereafter make a charge of 50 cents for each 
and every shipping permit issued by him for the shipment of game or parts thereof 
out of the State. Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to ship, or offer for 
shipment, or for any transportation or common carrier, company, or any agent, servant, 
or employe of any such company, to ship or accept for shipment, any of the game 
birds, or game animals, or any parts thereof, mentioned in this act, for transport out 
of the State, except the same be accompanied by a permit issued by the State game 
and fish warden, as herein provided, or by a non-resident hunter's license. Sec. 7. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to ship out of this State any birds, fish or animals 
protected by the laws of tlr's Slate, except when the same shall be in the personal 
possession of, or carried as baggage or express, by the owner thereof, and accompanied 
bv the owner thereof, upon the same train or other conveyance. Sec. 8. It is required 
that all packages containing fish or game shall be labeled in plain letters on the address 
side of the package, so as to disclose the contents thereof. 

IDAHO. 

FISH.— Act Approved March 6, 1905.— Sec. 4. It shall be lawful to catch trout, grayling, 
bass and sun fish with the hook and line attached to a pole or held in the hand, 
at any time of the year. And it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell 
or oflfer for sale any species of fish protected by this act, at any time of the year. It 
shall be unlawful for any person to catch more than tyenty pounds of trout, bass, 
catfish, grayling or sunfish in any one day, or to have in their possession more than 
thirty pounds at any time. It shall be unlawful to kill or destroy or have in posses- 
sion for any purpose, at any time of the year, any trout or black bass, less than four 
inches in length. It is unlawful for any person or persons to stretch a line or lines 
in or across any of the waters of this State and attach thereto hooks commonly known 
as "snag hooks." 

BIRDS. — Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful to kill any Mongolian pheasant for a period 
of four years next following the passage of this act. It shall be unlawful to kill any 
quail, except between the 1st day of November and the 1st day of December of each 
year, or for any person to kill more than eighteen birds in any one day, or to sell any 
at any time. It shall be unlawful to kill any sage hen except between the 15th day 
of July and the 1st day of December, or for any person to kill more than eighteen 
birds in any one day. It shall be unlawful to kill any turtle dove, or any species of 
snipe or plover, except between the 1st day of August and the 1st day of November of 
each year. It shall be unlawful to kill or destroy any partridge, pheasant, grouse, 
prairie chicken tr fool hen, except between the 15th day of August and the 1st day of 
December, or for any person to kill more than eighteen in any one day. It shall be 
unlawful to kill any duck except between the 1st day of September and the first day 
of February, or for any person to kill more than twenty-four in any one day. It shall 
be unlawful to kill any geese or swans except between the 1st day of September and the 
1st day of February, or for any person to kill more than three in any one day. 

BIG GAME. — Sec. S. It shall be unlawful to pursue, capture or kill within the State 
of Idaho any moose, buffalo, antelope, beaver or caribou at any time. It shall be 
unlawful to pursue, hunt or kill any deer, elk, mountain sheep, or mountain goat, at 
any time except between the 1st day of September and the 31st day of December of 
each year. And it shall be unlawful at any time to hunt, chase, or capture with dogs, 
any of the animals herein mentioned. 

LICENSE. — It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt or fish for any kind of 
game under this act until a license is first procured as provided herein, and upon 
requ'est of the game warden or his deputy such license must be produced .for inspection. 
Any bona fide male citizen or resident of the State of Idaho over the age of twelve 
years, who has been such for a period of six months preceding the application for a 
license, upon the payment of $1 to any justice of the peace of the county in which he 

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resides, or the State Fish and Game Warden, or any deputy warden, shall be entitled 
to receive a rod and gun license which shall permit such persons to pursue, hunt 
and kill any of the game animals or game birds in any of the counties of this State, 
and to catch fish with hook and line according to the provisions of this act. Any 
person who is a non-resident of the State of Idaho shall, upon payment to any justice 
of the peace of this State; or the State Fish and Game Warden, or any deputy warden, 
the sum of $25 be entitled to receive a non-resident big game license, which license 
shall permit such person to pursue, hunt and kill such number of each kind of animals 
as hereinafter provided. Any person who is a non-resident of the State of Idaho shall, 
upon payment to any justice of the peace of this State or the State Fish and Game 
\\'arden or any deputy warden the sum of $5, be entitled to receive a non-resident bird 
license, which shall permit such person to pursue, hunt and kill such number of each kind 
of birds as herein mentioned. Any person, regardless of sex, who is a non-resident of 
the State of Idaho shall, upon payment of $1 to any justice of the peace of this State 
or to the Fish and Game \^'arden or deputy warden be entitled to receive a non- 
resident fishing license, which license shall permit the holder thereof to catch fish with 
hook and line only, as provided in this act: Provided, That all female persons residents 
of the State of Idaho may take game and fish under the provisions of this act without 
procuring a license, as provided by this act. All licenses issued under the provisions 
of this act shall expire on the 31st day of January next following the date of their issue. 

BAG LIMITS, EXPORT.— Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful during the open season for any 
person to hunt, kill, or capture, more than one elk, two deer, one mountain sheep, one 
ibex and one mountain goat. Every person who shall have procured and paid for a license, 
as provided for in this act shall be entitled to the use and possession of the whole or 
any part, of any animal in accordance with the provisions of this act; and any non- 
resident hunter, who shall first have procured a license, shall be entitled to keep, and 
carry, or ship out of the State, the skins, heads or horns, or other parts of animals 
killed in compliance with the provision of this act. All such shipments must be 
accompanied by a sworn statement of the shipper that the same was not procured 
contrary to any of the provisions of this act, which affidavit shall contain the number 
and date of the owner's license. 

SALE.— But it shall be unlawful to sell, or keep or offer for sale, any portion of the 
carcasses, skins, heads or antlers of any of the animals mentioned in this act, and 
the possession of such carcasses, skins, heads or antlers in excess of the number 
provided for in this act is a misdemeanor: Provided, That nothing in this act contained 
shall apply to a person carrying on the business of a taxidermist, taking and having 
in his possession the heads or skins of birds or animals for the purpose of preserving 
the same, when such heads or skins are accompanied by an affidavit, showing that they 
were taken from birds or animals killed in compliance with the provisions of this act. 
It shall be unlawful to sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession for the 
purpose of selling or offering for sale any species of fish or birds protected by this act, 
or any part of a carcass of any of the animals mentioned in this act at any time of 
the year. 

SHIPMENT. — Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful to transport, or to receive or to have 
in possession any of the game animals or birds in this act mentioned, or any species 
of fish protected by this act for the purpose of transporting the same out of this 
State or from any point in this State to any other point for the purpose of offering 
or permitting the same to be offered for sale: Provided, That nothing in this act 
shall be construed to prevent shipping or transporting mounted heads or stuffed birds 
or animals to any point within the State when such birds or animals were not taken 
or killed in violation with the provisions of this act. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful to hunt, kill, capture or destroy 
any song, insectivorous or innocent bird, except English sparrow, magpie or bee bird, 
at any time of the year or to destroy the eggs or nests of such birds. 

CAMP FIRES. — Sec. 14. That any person who shall build a fire in or near any 
forest, timber or other inflammable material upon the public domain shall before leaving 
said fire, totally extinguish the same. 

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WYOMING. 
Revised Statutes of 1899 as Amended 1905. 

WANTON DESTRUCTION OF GAME.— Sec. 2104. Every person who shall wantonly 
or malicously destroy or waste any of the game animals of this State, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor; and the possession of any tusk, hide, scalp or horns of any 
of the game animals of this State, in excess of the number allowed by law, except under 
the restrictions hereinafter imposed, shall be considered as prime facie evidence of the 
violation of this section. 

SAGE CHICKEN, PRAIRIE CHICKENS AND GROUSE.-Sec. 2105. No person 
shall kill, net or trap, within this State, except as hereinafter provided, any snipe, 
greenshank, tatler, godwit, curlew, avoset, or other wader or plover, nor any quail, 
lark, whippoorwill, finch, thrush, snow-bird, turkey buzzard, robin, pheasant, or other 
insectivorous birds, except that partridges, prairie chicken, prairie hen and grouse, may 
be shot from Sept. 1st to Nov. 30th of each year, and sage chickens may be shot 
from Aug. 1st to Oct. 15th of each year: Provided, That the open season for grouse 
in Laramie, Albany and Carbon counties shall be from Aug. 1st to Oct. 15th of each 
year: Provided, That snipe, greenshank, tatler, godwit, curlew, avoset, or other wader 
or plover may be shot from the 1st day of September to the 1st day of May of the 
next year. 

DUCKS, GEESE. — Sec. 2106. No person shall ensnare, net or trap any wild duck, 
wild geese, wild swan at any time. There shall be established from the 1st day of 
September to the 1st day of May an open season in which ducks, brant or geese may 
be shot, killed or taken by means of gunshot, but nothing but shoulder guns may be 
used at any time. And it shall be unlawful to kill any of the above mentioned Vifaterfowls 
by any other means or during any other period than above specified: Provided, That it 
shall be unlawful to kill any wild swan. 

DEER, ELK, GOAT, MOOSE. LICENSE.-Sec. 2107. It shall be unlawful to kill 
any moose in the State of Wyoming till the 15th of September, 1912. It shall be unlawful 
to kill any deer, elk, antelope or mountain sheep at any time, except from the 15th 
day of September till the 15th day of November of each year. It shall be unlawful, 
at any time whatsoever, to kill or capture any of the above named animals by means 
of any pit, pitfall, trap or snare. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill any of the 
game animals or game birds of this State at any time, without a gun license, except as 
hereinafter provided for. 

GUN LICENSE.— Sec. 2108. Any person who is a bona fide elector of this State, or 
the child or legal ward of a bona fide elector of this State over the age of fourteen 
years, or a soldier or sailor who is a bona fide elector of the United States and has 
been stationed at a government post within this State for one year past, upon making 
affidavit before the Justice of the Peace of the precint in which such person actually 
resides, and upon the payment of $2 to said Justice of the Peace, shall be entitled to 
receive a hunter's license, which license shall permit such person to kill any of the 
game animals of this State during the current year, under the restrictions hereinbefore 
and hereinafter imposed. Any person who is not a bona fide elector of this State, or 
the child or legal ward of a bona fide elector of this State, or soldier or sailor who is 
a bona fide elector of the United States and who has been stationed at a government 
post within this State for one year past, shall, upon the payment of $5 to any Justice 
of the Peace of this State, be entitled to receive from such Justice of the Peace a 
gunner's license, which license shall permit such person to kill any of the game birds 
of this State during the current year imder the restrictions hereinbefore and hereinafter 
imposed; [and] upon the payment of $50 to any Justice of the Peace of this State, be 
entitled to receive from such Justice, a hunter's license, which license shall permit 
such person to kill any of the game birds or game animals of this State during the 
current year under the restrictions hereinbefore and hereinafter imposed. 

AMOUNT OF GAME LIMITED.— Sec. 2109. During the open season of each year 
for the killing of game, no person shall be allowed to hunt, pursue and kill more than 

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two elk, two deer, two antelope, and one mountain sheep in any one year, nor more 
than twelve game birds in any one day. 

NON-RESIDENT MUST HAVE GUIDE.— Sec. 2111. It shall be unlawful for 
any person who is not a qualified elector of this State, or the child or legal ward of a 
bona fide elector of this State, to kill any of the game animals of this State unless 
accompanied by a qualified guide. It shall be unlawful for any party of such non- 
resident persons out for the purpose of hunting the game animals of this State, to enter 
the game fields of this State unless each of such non-resident persons has employed, 
and is accompanied by an individual qualified guide: Provided, That one man and one 
woman may both be conducted by the same qualified guide. 

GAME MAY BE SHIPPED.— Sec. 2112. Every non-resident person who has complied 
with the requirements of Section 2108, shall be allowed to transport beyond the limits 
of this State, any carcass, head, antlers, scalp, skin or tusks of any animals killed in 
accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and the hunter's license of such person 
shall be considered as evidence that such carcass, head, skin, scalp, or tusks were 
taken from an animal or animals which were killed in season and according to law. 
Every resident person who has complied with the provisions of Section 2108, shall be 
permitted to transport beyond the limits of this State, any carcass, head, antlers, scalp, 
skin, or tusks of any animals killed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter 
when the crossing of the territory of another State is necessary in reaching the home 
of such resident person. 

UNLAWFUL TO CAPTURE OR SELL GAME ANIMALS, PHOTOGRAPHING. 
— Sec. 2117. It shall be unlawful at any time to capture any of the wild animals 
mentioned in Section 2107, for the purpose of selling or disposing of the same, or for 
shipping the same out of the State, except as hereinbefore provided. Provided it shall 
be lawful to sell any colon or quail for the purpose of breeding, or to take the same 
alive for preservation through the winter. Any responsible resident person of good 
character, who shall desire to capture any of the game animals of this State, except 
moose, for the purpose of domestication and propagation, upon application to the 
State game warden and the payment of $1 may receive from such State game warden 
a permit. Any responsible person of good moral character, who shall desire to photo- 
graph any of the game animals of this State during the months of January, February, 
March and April, shall upon the payment of $1 to the State game warden, and upon 
the recommendation of two well-known responsible electors of this State, be entitled 
to receive from such State game warden a permit, which permit shall entitle each person 
to enter the game fields of this State and photograph any of the game animals therein, 
but such a person shall be under the direction and supervision of a special assistant 
game warden detailed for that purpose. Every person holding a permit to capture or 
to photograph game animals under the provisions of this section, shall pay to the 
officer directing, supervising and assisting him, as herein provided, the sum of $3 
per day for each day, or fraction of a day. 

GAME PROTECTED IN A CERTAIN DISTRICT.- Act Feb. 20, 1905.— Sec. 14. The 
provision of this act of those parts thereof defining an open season for the hunting, 
pursuing and killing of the game animals and game birds of this State and regulating 
the capture of such animals, shall not apply to the area herein described, to-wit: 
Beginning at a point where the southern boundary line of the Yellowstone National 
Park intersects the western boundary line of the State of Wyoming, thence south along 
said State boundary line to a point where Badger Creek intersects said State boundary 
line, thence easterly along said Badger Creek to its head and across the summit of the 
Teton Range to the head of Moran Creek, thence easterly along said Moran Creek 
to Jackson's Lake, thence easterly along the southern shore of said Lake to its outlet, 
thence easterly along said outlet to the mouth of the Buffalo Fork of Snaka River. 
thence easterly along said Buffalo Fork and its south branch to the head thereof and 
across the Continental Divide to the head of the west fork of the Yellowstone River, 
thence northwesterly along said fork and Yellowstone River to a point where said 

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saiil south l)oiiiul:iiy line In tlu- point of hini'iiiiiig. 

USE OF DOGS.— Sec. 'M'Si. It shall be unlawful to use clogs for the purpose of 
running or coursing deer, antelope, elk or mountain sheep. 

lUKDS NOT GAME.— Chap. 37, Laws, 1901.- Sec. 1. Any person who shall kill or 
catch or have in his possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than a game bird, or 
who shall purchase, offer, or expose for sale, any such wild bird after it has been 
killed or caught, shall for each offense, be subject to a tine. For the purposes of this 
act the following only sliall be considered game birds: The Anatid;e, commonly known 
as swan, geese, brant and river and lake ducks; the Rallidx, commonly known as 
rails, coots and mud-hens; the Limicohe, commonly known as shore-birds, plover, 
snipe, sandpipers, tatlers, willets, curlews, godwits and avocets; the Gallin;e, commonly 
known as grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, sagehens, partridges and quail. Sec. 4. 
Certificates may be granted by the superintendent of public instruction to any properly 
accredited person of the age of fifteen years or upwards, permitting the holder thereof, 
to collect birds, th^ir nests or eggs, for strictly scientific purposes only. Sec. G. The 
English or European house sparrow U'csscr ilomcsliciis) and magpies are not included 
among the birds protected by this act. 

PHEASANTS.— Chap. 51', Laws lOOI. Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or 
persons to kill, net or tr.iji, within the State, any Mongolian plua^ant until the 1st day 
of September, 190G. 

FISH— SALE, SlIll'MENT, EXPt)RT.— Sec. 213G. It shall be unlawful to sell any 
game fish, or part thereof, caught within the borders of the State. Sec. 2137. It shall 
be unlawful for any common carrier or other persons to receive or have in their 
possession for transportation any game fish caught within the borders of the State: 
Provided, That this section shall not apply to game fish lawfully taken from the waters 
of this State by any bona fide citizen thereof. Sec. L'13S. It shall be unlawful to ship 
within or out of the State, or to carry out of the State, any game fish caught within the 
borders of the State. 

FISH, AMOUNT.— Sec. 2139. It shall ho unlawful for any person or persons to have 
in his or their possession on any one day, nunc than twenty pounds of game fish 
caught within the borders of the State. 

FISII, SIZE. Sec. •_M-t7. It shall be unlawful to kill or liave in |)ossession at any time, 
any trout or black bass less than si.\ inclus in Un.mli taken from any of the waters of 
this State. 

TACKLE.— Sec. 2119. A fishing tackle consisting of a rod or pole, line and hook, 
shall be the only lawful means by wliich fish may be taken from the waters of the State. 
The said hook shall not be baited with any poisonous drug or substance, and it shall 
be unlawful to use any net, seine, gill net, fish trap, grab-hooks, spears, snare, or similar 
means for catching fish. 

MISSISSIPPI. 

nEKU .VNl) KIKDS. Kevised Code, ISSIl. Sco. iH'il). II any person shall at any time 
kill any of the kiiul of deer or any turtle dove, sometimes called mourning dove, or any 
starling, commonly called field lark, between the 1st day of March and the 16th day of 
September, or any wild turkey, or any quail, usually called partridges, between the 1st 
day of May and the 1st d;iy of October, he shall be lined. IThc coile empowers county 
supervisors to enact county ordinances to protect game, ami such ordinances prevail 
over the general law.] 

INDIAN TERRITORY. 

Revised Statutes of the Linited States. 1S7S. Sec. 2137.— Every person, other than an 
Indian, who, within the limits of any tribe with whom the United States has existing 
treaties, hunts or traps, or takes and destroys any peltries or game, except for subsistence 
in the Indian country, shall forfeit all the traps, guns and ammunition in his possession, 
used or procured to be used for that purpose, and all peltries so taken, and shall be 
liable in addition to a penalty of $^W). 

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MISSOURI. 

OWNERSHIP IN STATE.— Act approved March 10, 1905.— Sec. 1. The ownership 
of and title to all birds, fish and game in the State of Missouri, not held by private 
ownership, legally acquired, is hereby declared to be in the State and no fish, birds 
or game shall be caught, taken or killed in any manner or at any time, or had in 
possession except the person so catching, taking, killing' or having in possession shall 
consent that the title to said fish, birds and game shall be and remain in the State of 
Missouri for the purpose of regulating and controling the use and disposition of the 
same after such catching, taking or killing. The catching, taking, killing or having 
in possession of birds, fish or game at any time, or in any manner, by any person, 
shall be deemed a consent of said person that the title of the State shall be and remain 
in the State for the purpose of regulating the use and disposition of the same, and 
said possession shall be consent to such title in the State. 

WILD BIRDS. — Sec. 2. No person shall kill or catch or have in his possession, 
living or dead, any wild bird other than a game bird, or purchase, offer or expose for 
sale, transport or ship, within or without the State, any such wild bird after it has 
been killed or caught except as permitted by this act. No part of the plumage, skin, 
or body of any bird protected by this section shall be sold or had in possession for 
sale. For the purpose of this act the following only shall be considered game birds. 
The Anatidae, commonly known as swans, geese, brant and river and sea-ducks; the 
Rallidae, commonly known as rails, coots, mud-hens and gallinules; the Limicolse, 
commonly known as shore birds, plovers, surf-birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpiper, tattlers, 
and curlews; the Gallinx, commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chicken, 
pheasants, partridges, and quail. Sec. 6. Certificates may be granted by the State 
game and fish warden to any properly accredited^ person of the age of fifteen years or 
upward, permitting the holder thereof to collect birds, their nests or eggs, for strictly 
scientific purposes only. Sec. 8. The English or European house sparrow. Cooper's 
hawk, chicken hawk, goshawk, sharp-shinned hawk, great horned owl and crow are 
not included among the birds protected by this act. 

GAME BIRDS. — Sec. 9. No person or persons shall injure, kill or destroy by any means 
whatever the following named game birds, except between the following named dates: 
Wild turkey, Nov. 1st to Dec. 31st of each year. Quail (bobwhite, partridge), from 
Nov. 1st to Dec. 31st of each year. Pinnated grouse (prairie chicken), Nov. 15th to 
Dec. 15th of each year. Ducks and geese, Jan. 1st to April 30th, and Sept. 15th to 
Dec. 31st of each year. Snipe, Jan. 1st to April 30th, and Sept. 15th to Dec. 31st of 
each year. Plover, Aug. 1st to Dec. 31st of each year. Woodcock, Aug. 1st to Dec. 31st 
of each year. Doves, Aug. 1st to Dec. 31st of each year. 

RUFFED GROUSE, PHEASANT— IMPORTED BIRDS.— Sec. 10. Any person who 
shall take, capture or kill, except under permit, any ruffed grouse (pheasant), Mongolian, 
Chinese or English pheasant or other imported game birds before Dec. 1st, 1910, and 
thereafter only from Nov. 15th to Dec. 15th, shall be punished. 

FORBIDDEN METHODS.— Sec. 11. Any person who, in the pursuit of any wild 
duck, goose, brant, or other aquatic bird, upon the waters of this State, shall use any 
sneak boat, or any sail boat, or boat propelled by steam, naphtha, electric or other 
engine or machinery, or any battery, swivel gun or punt gun, or who shall kill or 
attempt to kill or to pursue, while occupying or using any such boat, any wild geese, 
duck, brant, or other aquatic bird, or who shall construct or use for the purpose 
of hunting, upon the ice, any fixed or artificial blind or ambush, shall be punished. 
Sec. 12. No person shall at any time make use of any pit, pitfall, deadfall, scaffold, 
cage, snare, trap, net, salt lick, baited hook, or any other similar device, or any drug, 
poison chemical or explosive, for the purpose of injuring, capturing or killing any 
birds or animals protected by the laws of this State, except as otherwise provided. No 
person shall pursue, catch, take or kill any birds, deer, wild turkey, wild ducks, wild 
goose, brant or other acquatic bird or fowl, between sunset and the following sunrise. 

DEER.— Sec. 13. It is unlawful to kill any deor under one year of age. It is 

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unlawful to kill any deer of any age between the 1st day of January and the 1st day 
of November in each year, and it is unlawful to kill any doe. It is unlawful to make use 
of any artificial light in hunting or killing deer; and the wearing or having such light 
on the head shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of this section. It is unlawful 
to wound, kill or capture any deer in the waters of the streams, ponds or lakes within 
the jurisdiction of this State, or to have in possession or transport at any time the 
carcass of any deer or any portion of such carcass, unless the same has thereon the 
natural evidence of its sex. 

SQUIRREL, OTTER, BEAVER, MUSK RAT.— Sec. 14. No person shall kill any 
fox squirrel (American squirrel), black squirrel or gray squirrel, save only from 
July 1st to Dec. 31st, both inclusive; nor shall any person kill any such squirrels at any 
time in any public or private park. No person shall kill any otter, beaver or muskrat, 
between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of November: Provided, That any person 
may protect his premises from the ravag'fs and depredations of those animals at any 
time and in any way. 

LIMIT OF BAG.— Sec. 15. The right given by this act to take or kill deer or 
birds, or to have in possession, unless otherwise specified, is limited to food purposes 
and to one deer, two turkeys, and twenty-five birds of any other species for each 
person in any one calendar day, and no person shall take, kill, or have in possession 
at any one time more than two deer, four turkeys and fifty birds of any other species. 
No birds, game or fish protected by this act shall be held in possession by any person 
for more than five days after the close of the season for killing the same. 

SALE.— Sec. 18. Any person, firm or corporation who shall at any time of the year 
barter, sell or oiTer for sale, in this State, either under the name used in this section 
or under any other name or guise whatever any of the birds, game or fish protected in 
this act, whether taken within or without this State, or lawfully or unlawfully taken, 
shall be punished. 

FISH.— Sec. 30. It shall be unlawful to take, catch or kill any fish in any of the 
waters of this State by means of any seine, trammel net, gill net, fish trap or any other 
kind of net, trap, device, or means other than by ordinary hook and line, gig, spear 
and trot line. Any person may use a small seine, not more than twenty feet in length 
and four feet in width, known as a minnow seine, for catching minnows, to be used for 
bait only. 

HUNTING LICENSES.— Sec. 54. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt in 
this State outside of the county in which he lives without first obtaining a license 
permitting him or her to do so. Sec. 56. Any non-resident of this State may procure 
a license for hunting by filing his or her affidavit with the State game and fish warden, 
stating his or her name, age, place of residence, postoffice address, color of his or her 
hair and eyes and the fact whether he or she can or cannot write his or her own 
name and paying to the State game and fish warden the sum of $15.00. Sec. 5.S. Any 
person who has been a bona fide resident of this State for six months then last past 
may procure a license for himself or herself by filing his [or her] affidavit with the clerk 
of the county where he or she resides, stating his or her name, age, place of residence, 
postoffice address, the color of his [or her] hair and eyes, and the fact of whether he or 
she cannot write his or her name, paying to said clerk the sum of $1.00: Provided, That 
this section shall not apply to owners and tenants of farm lands, who may hunt on their 
lands without obtaining a hunting license. Sec. 60. It is hereby declared to be the 
duty of every person holding a hunter's license in this State to present the same for 
inspection by the State game and fish warden or any of his deputies or any other State 
officer or any sheriff, marshal, or constable. Sec. 61. Any person who shall hunt in 
this [State] without being at the time of such hunting in possession of a license, as 
herein provided, duly issued to him or her, which license shall cover the period in 
which he or she shall be so hunting or who shall furnish to another person a license 
issued to him or her, shall be fined. 

SHIPMENT. — Sec. 69. It is unlawful for any person who has lawfully killed the 

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same in this State to take, sliip or transport out of tliis State, or ship or transport 
within this State, except under permit, any of the birds or game protected by the 
laws of this State, unless the same shall be in personal possession of or carried openly 
as baggage or express by the owner thereof, and such owner shall have in his 
possession at the time a non-resident or resident license duly issued to him under the 
provisions of law, and shall accompany the said birds or game on the same train or 
other conveyance of the common carrier. 

FLORIDA. 

DEER. — Act of 1903.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful to kill, or have in possession any 
wild deer except during the months of November, December and January. Sec. 5. Until 
January 1st, 1908, it shall be unlawful for any person to kill more than five deer during 
any one year. 

GAME DIRDS.— Sec. 3 [as amended 1905]. No person or persons shall have in posses- 
sion, or shall kill any wild turkey, quail or partridges in any part of this State, save 
only from the 1st day of November until the 1st day of March. No person shall kill 
more than two wild turkeys, or more than twenty quail, and no party o*f two or more 
persons shall kill more than four wild turkeys or more than forty quail in any one day; 
and no person shall kill more than five wild turkeys in any one year; and no person, 
firm or company shall sell any wild turkey, quail or partridge. [Ducks may not be 
killed after sunset and before sunrise.] 

TRANSPORTATION.— Sec. 4. That any person or persons, firm or corporation, who 
shall ship any deer, deer hide or hides, venison, wild turkey, quail or partridge beyond 
the limits of the county in which the same were killed, shall upon conviction thereof 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided, Hunters or hunting parties may takf 
their game home with them in this State, but not for sale. 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.— Sec. 6. That all non-residents of the State, before 
hunting for the purpose of killing any wild game in this State, shall apply to the 
clerk of the Circuit Court of the county the said non-resident proposes to hunt in, and 
upon the payment of $10 to the said clerk by the applicant, the clerk shall issue a permit 
to hunt in said county, and the same shall not be transferable, and it shall be unlawful 
for any non-resident of this State without first obtaining said permit, which permit 
shall expire on the 1st day of March next following the date of its issue, to hunt in this 
State. Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to counties having 
special game laws. 

FIRE-HUNTING DEER.— Act of May 19, 1891.— Sec. 3. That no person shall at any 
time hunt wild deer in the night time by means of fire, lamp or any artificial light. 

BIRDS OTHER THAN GAME.— Act of May 29, I901.-Sec. 1. No person shall kill or 
catch or have in his or her possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than a game 
bird, nor shall purchase, offer or expose for sale any such wild bird after it has been 
killed or caught. No part of the pluimage, skin or body of any bird protected by thii 
section shall be sold or had in possession for sale. For the purposes of this act the 
following only shall be considered game birds: The Anatidae, commonly known as swans, 
geese, brant, and river and sea ducks; the Rallidae, commonly known as rails, coots, 
mud-hens and gallinules; the Limicolse, commonly known as shore-birds, plovers, surf 
birds, snipe, woodcock, sand pipers, tatlers, and curlews; the Gallinse, commonly known 
as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges and quails, also turtle 
doves, tame and wild pigeons and robins. 

SCIENTIFIC SPECIMENS.— Sec. 5. Certificates may be granted by the Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture of the State of Florida, or by any incorporated society of natural 
history in the State, to any properly accredited person of the age of fifteen years or 
upward, permitting the holder thereof to collect birds, their nests or eggs, for strictly 
scientific purposes only. 

BIRDS NOT PROTECTED.— Sec. 7. The English sparrow, sharp-shinned hawk (com- 
monly known as the little blue darter), Cooper's hawk (known as the big blue darter), great 

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horned owl, crow, rice bird, meadow lark, jackdaw and butcher bird, are not included 
among the birds protected by this act. Sec. 8. Nothing in this act shall prevent any 
citizen of the State of Florida from destroying birds which are found injuring grapes, 
fruits, garden or farm products on his premises or from taking or keeping in a cage any 
cardinal red bird or mocking bird for his own pleasure and amusement; Provided, That 
the same shall not be sold or shipped out of the State. 

WEST PALM BEACH.— Act May 17, 1901.— Sec. 1. Any person or persons who shall 
kill, capture or shoot any deer, alligator, crocodile, water-fowl, or any wild bird (ex- 
■septing crows) within one mile of the corporation limits of the town of West Palm Beach 
Dade county, Florida, shall be punished on conviction thereof. 

FISH.— There are no close seasons for anglmg. 

GEORGIA. 

BIRDS.— Chap. 447, Laws 1903.— Sec. 1. It shall not be lawful to kill any wild turkey, 
pheasant, partridge or quail between the 15tli day of March and the 1st day of November; 
or kill any dove, marsh-hen or snipe between the 15th day of March and the 15th day of 
July in each year; or kill any summer or wood-duck, or wood-cock, between the 1st day 
of February and the 1st day of September. It shall not be lawful to kill any wild deer 
or fawn between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of September; or to sell or offer 
for sale or have in possession during the closed season any bird or animal, or any part 
of either, whether dead or alive, that arc protected by this act, during the period they 
are so protected. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to shoot, whether over baited grounds 
or not, more than forty doves in any one day. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 4. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm or corporation to ex- 
port, ship or carry, or cause to be exported, shipped or carried, beyond the limits of this 
State, any partridge or quail at ^ny season of the year. 

BIRDS OTHER THAN GAME.-Chap. 346, Laws 1903.-Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful 
to kill, catch or have in his or her possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than 
a game bird. For the purposes of this act the following only shall be considered game 
birds: Swans, geese, brant, river and sea ducks, rails, coots, mud-hens and gallinules, 
shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sand pipers, tatlers and curlews, wild 
turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, doves, partridges and quail. Sec. 4. Cer- 
tificates may be granted by the Commissioner of Agriculture to any properly accredited 
person of the age of fifteen years or upward, permitting the holder thereof to collect 
birds, their nests or eggs, for strictly scientific purposes only. Sec. 6. The English or 
European house sparrow, great horned owl. sharp shinned hawk, commonly known as the 
little blue darter or blue tail, Cooper's hawk, known las the big blue darter, or blue tail; 
crow, lark, crow-blackbird, jackdaw and ricebird, are not included among the birds pro- 
tected by this act. 

FISH. — [There are no close seasons for angling.] 




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ARIZONA. 
Chapter 25, Laws 1905. 

TITLE IN GAME.— Chap. 25, Laws 1905.— Sec. 2. All game or fish now or hereafter 
within this Territory not held by private ownership legally acquired, and which for 
the purpose of this act shall include all the quadrupeds, birds and fish mentioned in 
this act, are hereby declared to be the property of the Territory, and no right, title, 
interest or property therein can be acquired or transferred, or possession thereof had 
or maintained except as herein expressly provided. Sec. 3. As used in this act, and 
unless otherwise specifically restricted or enlarged, the word "game" includes all the 
quadrupeds and birds, and the word "fish" includes all the fish (except suckers and 
carp) mentioned herein, and now or hereafter within this Territory and not held by 
private ownership legally acquired. 

GAME BIRDS.— Sec. 4. Every person who, between the 1st day of March and the 
15th day of October in each year, shall kill or have in possession, except for purposes 
of propagation, any quail, bob while, partridge, grouse, pheasant, snipe or rail, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor. [For wild turkey see Section 11, below.] 

[INTRODUCED PHEASANTS.— Chapter, 35, Laws 1905.— Sec. 1. Every person who, 
between the time of the passage of this act and March 1st, 1911, shall hunt, pursue, 
shoot at, kill, destroy, wound or capture, or have in his possession, dead or alive, 
except for purposes of propagation under authority of a fish and game commissioner 
of Arizona any introduced pheasant variously known as Oriental pheasant, Chinese 
pheasant, Japanese pheasant, green backed golden pheasant, ring necked pheasant, or 
Chinese ringless pheasant, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.] 

GUN. — Sec. 6. Every person who shall use a shotgun of a larger caliber than that com- 
monly known and designated as No. 10 gauge, for the purpose of killing any wild 
turkey, dove, quail, bob white, partridge, groiise, pheasant, wild duck, wild goose, 
snipe or rail, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

SONG BIRDS.— Sec. 9. Every person, who, in the Territory of Arizona, shall at any 
time hunt, pursue, kill or destroy any lark, thrush, sparrow, swallows, grosbeak or tanager, 
or any other song bird of any kind, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided, That 
nothing in this act be so construed as to interfere with the collection of birds and 
birds' eggs for scientific purposes by the Curator of the Territorial Museum, or by any 
other person authorized by a fish and game commissioner of this Territory to collect 
birds and birds' eggs for scientific purposes. 

BIG GAME. — Sec. 10. Every person who shall kill or have in his possession any 
antelope at any time prior to March 1st, 1911, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 11. 
Every person who, except between the 15th day of September and the 1st day of 
December of the same year, shall kill or have in his possession any male deer or wild 
turkey, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 12. Every person who shall at any 
time hunt, pursue, take, kill or destroy, or have in his possession, dead or alive, any 
camel, elk, mountain goat, mountain sheep, female deer or spotted fawn, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 13. Every person who shall kill or have in his 
possession more than three male deer in one open season, or the carcass of any deer 
from which the natural evidence of sex has been removed, or who shall kill or have in 
his possession more than twenty-five quail in any one day, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor. 

TROUT.— Sec. 14. Every person who shall, except between the 1st day of June and 
the 1st day of September in each year, take, catch or procure, or have in his possession, 
any brook trout, mountain or rainbow trout, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

BASS, CRAPPIE.— Sec. 15. Every person who, except between the 1st day of 

September and the 1st day of December of each year, shall take, catch or procure, or 

have in his possession, any black bass, strawberry bass or crappie, shall be guilty of a 

misdemeanor. 

SIZE OF FISH.— Sec. 16. Every person who, while legally fishing, shall take any 

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variety of fish protected by this act less than seven inches in length, is hereby 
required to return the said fish, as little injured as possible, to the waters from whence 
they were taken; and any person failing to so do shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

LAWFUL CATCH.— Sec. 18. Every person who shall in any one day take more than 
twenty (20) pounds, or a greater number of fish than forty (40), of brook, mountain 
or rainbow trout,^ black bass, strawberry bass, crappie or catfish, shall be guitly of a 
misdemeanor. 

EXrORT.— Sec. 19.— Any common carrier, or private individual, who shall transport, 
or assist in transporting, any of the game animals or game birds or fish mentioned in this 
act, at or during the time when the killing or taking of the same is prohibited, or for 
transportation or carriage outside of the limits of this Territory at any time, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor. 

SALE.— Sec. 20. Every cold storage company or person keeping a cold storage 
warehouse, or tavern, or hotel keeper, restaurant or eating house keeper, market man, 
or any other person, who shall at any time sell, or expose for sale, in this Territory, 
any hide, head, horns or meat of any deer, antelope, elk, mountain sheep or mountain 
goat, or any carcass of any wild turkey, dove, quail, bob white, partridge, pheasant, 
grouse, wild duck, wild goose, brant, snipe or rail, or any fish mentioned in this act, 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

TRESPASS.— Sec. 21. Every person who, upon any enclosed ground, or cultivated 
ground or field, which is private property, and where signs are displayed forbidding 
such shooting, shall shoot any of the game mentioned in this act without permission 
first being obtained from the owner or person in possession of such ground, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor. 

LICENSE.— Sec. 23. Any person not a bona fide resident of this Territory who 
shall at any time kill any deer without first having procured from a fish and game 
commissioner of the Territory a license permitting him to kill three male deer in the 
open season of that calendar year, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 24. Non- 
resident hunting licenses shall be procured from a fish and game commissioner of the 
Territory upon the payment to him of a fee of $10; this license shall expire with the 
calendar year and shall be non-transferable. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

Act of Congress March 3, 1899, as amended March 3, 1901. 

GAME BIRDS.— Sec. 1 [as amended 1901]. No person shall kill or have in possession 
any partridge, otherwise quail, between the 15th day of March and the 1st day of 
November. No person shall kill or have in possession any woodcock between the Ist 
day of January and the 1st day of July. No person shall expose for sale or have in 
possession any prairie chicken, otherwise pinnated grouse, between the 15th day of 
March and the 1st day of September. No person shall kill or have in possession any 
wild turkey or rufTed grouse, otherwise known as pheasant, between the 26th day of 
December and the 1st day of November, except the English, ring-neck, or other pheasant 
of foreign origin, hatched and raised in farm poultry inclosures. No person shall kill or 
have in possession any squirrel or rabbit except the species known as the English rabbit, 
Belgian hare, between the 1st day of February and the 1st day of November. No person 
shall kill or have in possession any wild duck, wild goose, brant, snipe or plover between 
the 1st day of April and the 1st day of September. No person shall kill or have in 
possession any water rail or ortolan, reed bird or rice bird, marsh blackbird or other 
game bird not previously mentioned, between the 1st day of February and the 1st day 
of September. 

VENISON.— Sec. 2. That no person shall expose for sale or have in possession any 
deer meat or venison, between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of September. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 3. For the purposes of this act the following only shall 
be considered game birds: The Anatida;, commonly known as swans, geese, brant, river 

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and sea ducks; the Rallidas, commonly known as rails, coots, mud hens and gallinules; 
the Limicolae, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, 
sandpipers, tattlers and curlews: the Gallinae, commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, 
prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges and quails, and the species of Icteridae, commonly 
known as marsh blackbirds and reed birds or rice birds. No person shall kill, catch, ex- 
pose for sale, or have in his or her possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than a 
game bird, English sparrow, crow, Cooper's hawk, sharpshinned hawk or great horned 
owl; nor rob the nest of any such wild bird of eggs or young; nor destroy such nest 
except in the clearing of land of trees or brush: Provided, That this section shall not 
apply to birds or eggs collected for scientific purposes under permits issued by the super- 
intendent of police. 

TRAPS-STUFFED SPECIMENS.-No person shall trap, net, or ensnare any water- 
fowl or other wild bird (except the English sparrow), or have in his or her possession 
any trap, snare, net or illuminating device for the purpose of killing or capturing any 
such bird: Provided, That this act shall not apply to birds or animals heretofore stufYed 
or to birds or animals hereafter killed in open season and subsequently stuffed. 

WILDFOWLING METHODS.-Sec. 4. That no person shall kill or shoot at any 
wild duck, wild goose, brant, or wild bird in the night time; nor kill or shoot at any 
wild duck, wild goose, wild brant, or wild bird with any other firearm, gun, or device 
than such as are habitually raised at arm's length and fired from the shoulder. 

SUNDAY.— Sec. 7. That there shall be no shooting or having in possession in the open 
air the implements for shooting, on the first day of the week, called Sunday, except to 
transport said implements within or without the District of Columbia. 

FISH NETS.— Act of May 13, 1898.— Sec. 1. No person shall fish with fyke net, pound 
net, stake net, weir, float net, gill net, haul seine, dip net, or any other contrivance, 
stationary or floating, in the waters of the Potomac River and its tributaries within the 
District of Columbia: [Bait fishing permitted] Provided, That any person engaged in 
taking such catfish, smelt, chub, bull minnows and crayfish shall first have procured a 
written permit from the said Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to take such bait for 
hook-and-line fishing. 

BASS, CHUB, CRAPPIE.— Sec. 2. No person shall catch or kill in the waters of the 
Potomac River or its tributaries within the District of Columbia any black bass (other- 
wise known as green bass and chub), crappie (otherwise known as calico bass and straw- 
berry bass), between the 1st day of April and the 29th day of May of each year, nor have 
in possession nor expose for sale any of said species between the dates aforesaid, nor 
catch or kill any of said species of fish at any other time during the year, except by 
angling, nor catch nor kill any of the aforesaid species by what are known as out lines 
or trot lines, having a succession of hooks or devices. 




GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— ALASKA. 



ALASKA. 
Act of Congress, June 7, 1902. 

Sec. 1.— The wanton destruction of wild game animals or wild birds, the destruction of 
nests and eggs of such birds, or the killing of any wild birds other than a game bird, or 
wild game animal, for the purposes of shipment from Alaska is hereby prohibited. The 
term "game animals" shall include deer, moose, caribou, sheep, mountain goats, bears, 
sea lions, and walrus. The term "game birds" shall include water fowl, commonly known 
as ducks, geese, brant, and swans; shore birds, commonly known as plover, snipe, and 
curlew, and the several species of grouse and ptarmigan. 

Sec. 2. — That it shall be unlawful for any person in Alaska to kill any wild game 
animals or wild birds except during the seasons hereinafter provided: Large brown 
bears, from April 15th to June 30th, both inclusive; moose, caribou, walrus, a-nd sea 
lions, from Sept. 1st to Oct. 31st, both inclusive; deer, sheep, and mountain goats, from 
Sept. 1st to Dec. 15th, both inclusive; grouse, ptarmigan, shore birds, and water fowl, 
from Sept. 1st to Dec. 15th, both inclusive. 

Sec. 3.— That it shall be unlawful for any person at any time to kill any females or 
yearlings of moose, caribou, deer, or sheep, or for any one person to kill in any one 
year more than the number specified of each of the following game animals: Two moose, 
walrus, or sea lions; four caribou, sheep, goats, or large brown bears; eight deer; or to 
kill or have in possession in any one day more than ten grouse or ptarmigan, or twenty- 
five shore birds or waterfowl. 

That it shall be unlawful for any person at any time to hunt with hounds, to use a 
shotgun larger than number ten gauge, or any gun other than that which can be fired from 
the shoulder, or to use steam launches or any boats otb.er than those propelled by oars 
or paddles in the pursuit of game animals or birds. 

Sec. 4. — That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons at any time to sell or oflFer 
for sale any hides, skins, or heads of any game animals or game birds in Alaska, or to 
sell, or offer for sale therein, any game animals or game birds, or parts thereof, during 
the time when the killing of said animals or birds is prohibited: Provided, That it shall 
be lawful for dealers having in possession any game animals or game birds legally killed 
during the open season to dispose of the same within fifteen days after the close of said 
season. 

Sec. 5. — That it shall be unlawful tor any person, hrm, or corporation, or their othcers 
or agents to deliver to any common carrier, or for the owner, agent, or master of anj 
vessel, or for any other person to receive for shipment or have in possession with intent 
to ship out of Alaska any hides or carcasses of caribou, deer, moose, mountain sheep, 
or mountain goat, or parts thereof, or any wild birds, or parts thereof: Provided, That 
nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the collection of specimens for scientific 
purposes, the capture or shipment of live animals and birds for exhibition or propagation, 
or the export from Alaska of specimens and trophies, under such jestrictiono and iim>a 
tions as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe and publish. 

Alaska Regulations for 1905. 

[No permits for the export of heads or other trophies will be issued during 1905, except 
to residents of Alaska. The following regulations promulgated by the Secretary of 
Agriculture supplement the law as printed above, and are in force during 1905.] 

1. Districts. — For the purposes of this act, the following game districts are hereby 
established: 

(1) The Sitka District, comprising southeastern Alaska east of the 141st meridian. 

(2) The Peninsula District, comprising the Aleutian Islands, the Alaska and Kenai 
peninsular and adjacent islands, and that part of Alaska west of the 141 meridian which 
drains into the Pacific Ocean. 

(3) The Yukon District, comprising northwestern Alaska north of the Peninsula 
District, including the area drained by the Kuskokwim, Tanana, Yukon and Kowak rivers, 
and the area which drains into the Arctic Ocean. 

2. Seasons. — Bear. — The open season for large brown bears throughout Alaska is from 
April 1 to December 31, both inclusive. There is no close season on black bears. Deer.— 

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The open season for deer in the Sitka game district is from August 1 to January 31, 
both inclusive. Moose and Sheep.— The open season for moose and sheep throughout 
Alaska is from September 1 to December 31, both inclusive. Caribou.— The open season 
for caribou in the Yukon game district is from September 1 to December 31, both in- 
clusive. In the Peninsula District, killing caribou on the Kenai Peninsula (except for 
scientific purposes under special permit) is prohibited. Goats.— The open season for goats 
throughout Alaska is from August 1 to December 31, both inclusive. Walrus.— Killing 
walrus south of a line drawn from the north end of St. Matthew Island to Cape Vancouver 
(except by natives or for scientific purposes under special permit) is hereby prohibited. 
Ptarmigan and Waterfowl. — The open season for ptarmigan and waterfowl throughou'. 
Alaska is from September 1 to January 31. both inclusive. 

KENTUCKY. , 

CLOSE SEASONS.— Act. Feb. 27, 1894.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
kill any buck, doe or fawn between the 1st day of March and the 1st day of September. 
Sec. 2. No person shall kill any black, gray or fox squirrel between the 1st day of 
February and the 15th day of June; provided, gray squirrels may be killed for protection 
of crops. Sec. 3. No person shall kill any wild goose, wood-duck, teal or other wild duck 
between the 1st day of April and the 15th day of August. Sec. 4. No person shall kill 
any wild turkey between the 1st day of February and the 1st day of September. Sec. 5. 
No person shall kill any woodcock between the 1st day of February and the 20th day of 
June. Sec. 6. No person shall kill any quail, partridge or pheasant between the 1st day 
of January and the 15th day of November. Sec. 7. No person shall kill any dove between 
the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August. Sec. 8. No person shall at any time 
kill any thrush, meadow-lark, finch, martin, swallow, woodpecker, flicker, oriole, red-bird, 
tanager, cat-bird, blue-bird or other song or insectivorous bird, except when the same shall 
be destrcutive to the fruit or grain crops. 

[SQUIRRELS AND RABBITS further protected between Sept. 15 and Nov. 15.] 

TRANSPORTATION of wild turkey, pheasant, grouse, partridge, quail forbidden, 
except when accompanied by owner. 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.— Chap 79, Laws 1902.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful foi 
any person who is a non-resident of the State of Kentucky to hunt anywhere within the 
State of Kentucky any of the wild animals, fowls or birds that are protected during 
any part of the year without procuring a license to do so. Sec. 2. Said license shall 
be procured in the following manner: The applicant shall fill out a blank application 
to be furnished by the clerk of the county court of any county, stating the name, age 
and occupation and place of residence of the applicant, which application shall be sworn 
to before some person authorized to administer oaths in the State of Kentucky, or in the 
State in which the applicant resides. Upon the presentation of such application to the 
clerk of the county court of any county in the State of Kentucky, such clerk shall issue 
applicant a license to hunt in any county in the State of Kentucky. Sec. 3. Such I'cense 
shall be good for one year, and shall not be transferrable. [Fee, equivalent to that charged 
by visitor's own State.] Sec. 5. No person to whom a license is issued shall be entitled 
to hunt without at the time of such hunting he has in his possession his license, ready to 
exhibit the same to any one demanding the same. 



This edition is revised to the date of the 
index printed on last page. Any change in a 
law, as it is printed in the body of the book, 
will be noted in index. 

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KANSAS. 

FISH.— Act of February 18, 1905.— Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful to catch or take 
from any lake, pond, river, creek, stream or other waters within or bordering on this 
State, any fish, by any means or in any manner except by rod and line and fish hook, 
or hand line or set line. [For minnow net see Sec. 10.] 

BIRDS.— Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful at any time, except as hereinafter provided, to kill, 
entrap or ensnare any partridge, pinnated grouse, grouse, prairie-chicken, quail, plover, 
pheasant, oriole, meadow-lark, robin, thrush, redbird, mocking-bird, bluebird, wild 
ducks, wild geese, wild brant and red squirrels; provided, it shall not be unlawful to shoot- 
grouse or prairie-chicken from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15; doves from Aug. 1 to Sept. 15; 
plover from July 15 to Sept 15; wild ducks, wild geese and wild brant from Sept. 1 to 
Anril 15; quail from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15; provided further, that this act shall not 
prevent the owner of orchards from killing orioles at any time for the protection of 
such orchards. 

LICENSE. — Sec. 8. No person shall take any game which is by law protected during 
any portion of the year without first having in his possession a license. Such license 
shall be issued to any resident of the State by the county clerk of any county under 
seal, upon the payment of a fee of $1, which licenses shall be good throughout the 
State; and any non-resident making application to the secretary of State for such license 
shall pay a fee of $15, which licenses shall be good for the entire State: Provided, 
That the provisions of this section shall not be construed to affect the right of the 
owner or occupant of any land to hunt or shoot on his own premises, or the right of 
any member of any hunting club to shoot or hunt on the premises of such club. All 
licenses shall be dated the day and year of their issue and shall expire on the 30th 
day of June next thereafter. Sec. 9. Every person holding a hunter's license shall 
carry the same with him while hunting, and on demand by the fish and game wardtn 
or any deputy fish and game warden, or any constable, marshal or other police officer 
charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this act, shall permit said license 
to be examined by the officer demanding the same. Failure to produce such license 
for examination shall immediately terminate said license. 

BIRDS FOR SCIENCE, MINNOW NETS, PRIVATE WATERS.— Sec. 10. The 
provisions of this act shall not apply to the catching of any wild bird or fish for the 
sole purpose of using it or preserving it for scientific purposes; nor to the possession 
and use by any person of a minnow seine not to exceed six feet in length and used 
solely for the purpose of catching minnows for bait; nor to prevent the owner of 
a private or artificial pond from taking fish therefrom in any manner. 

TRESPASS. — Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons at any time 
to shoot, hunt or pursue any wild or game bird upon the occupied or improved 
premises of another, or upon any traveled or public road that adjoins any such 
occupied or improved premises, without first having obtained the written permission 
of the owner or the occupant of such premises. 

SALE, SHIPMENT.— Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful at any time to buy, sell, barter, 
ship, or offer for sale, barter, or shipment, within the State of Kansas, any squirrel, 
bird or birds named in Section 7 of this act. 

BAG LIMIT. — Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful for any one person in any one calendar 
day to shoot or kill game birds in excess of the following indicated numbers: Grouse, 
fifteen; prairie-chicken, fifteen; quail, twenty; plover, twenty; wild ducks, twenty; 
wild geese, ten; wild brant, ten. 

[ANTELOPE are protected to 19US.J 

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UTAH. 

FISH.— Act in Effect May 5, 1905. Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful to fish for or take 
any fish from any of the waters of this State, except the Colorado, Green, Grand and 
San Juan rivers by any means or device whatever, except by means of hook and line, 
commonly known as angling, and in that way only between the 14th of June of each 
year and the 15th day of December following: Provided, That only in Utah Lake and 
Provo River, below the Oregon Short Line Railway bridge at Provo, and in Bear River 
below the county bridge at Bear River City, and in the Jordan River, carp, suckers, 
shubs, bullheads, catfish, mullet and mountain herring, may be caught with hook and 
line, commonly known as angling, at any time; and provided further, that it shall be 
unlawful to take any fish whatever from the waters of Fish Lake or its tributaries, or 
from Seven Mile Creek below Fish Lake at any time in the year except only between 
the 20th day of July and the 15lh day of December following; and provided further, that 
it shall be unlawful to take or have in possession at any time of any year any trout, 
black bass, or mountain herring less than seven inches long; and provided further, 
that the word "angling," as used in this act, is defined to be fishing with a fishing 
rod or pole held in the hand or hands, the rod or pole to have only one line 
attached thereto, and the line to have attached thereto artificial fly hooks not exceeding 
two in number, or one baited fish hook with no more than one gang of no more than 
three hooks, or one trolling spoon with no more than one gang of no more than three 
hooks. Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful to sell, kill, destroy or have in his possession 
any bass or trout whatever at any time after the 15th day of December and before the 
15th day of June following. Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer or expose 
for sale at any time any eastern brook trout, rainbow trout, grayling trout, native 
black-spotted or mountain trout, or any other species of trout or landlocked salmon, taken 
from any of the streams or waters of this or any other State. It shall be a misdemeanor 
for any person to take, catch or have in possession more than fifteen pounds of any 
one or more of said varieties or species of fish on any one day, for domestic use or 
any other purpose: Provided, That between the 14th day of June and the 15th day of 
December following of each year it shall be lawful to take, only with hook and line, 
commonly known as angling, and between the same dates, to sell, any number of 
pounds per day, of black bass from Utah, Bear and Sevier Lakes only. 

BIG GAME, IMPORTED BIRDS.— Sec. 19. It shall be unlawful at any time for 
the next succeeding four years to shoot at or in any manner kill any deer, elk, ante- 
lope, mountain sheep, otter or beaver, or any game animals or birds that may be 
brought or introduced into this State by the Fish and Game Department or by 
private individuals for the purpose of stocking the State with said animals or birds, 
or to capture and hold in confinement any of the animals or their young, mentioned in 
this section, unless it be for public or private parcks, within this State and then only 
by permission of the State Fish and Game Commissioner. Sec. 20. It shall be unlawful 
to pursue with any dog or dogs any of the animals mentioned in Section 19. 

BIRDS.— Sec. 21. It shall be unlawful to kill, ensnare, net or entrap, or have in posses- 
sion any partridge, pheasant, prairie chicken, sage hen, grouse, or mourning dove, alter the 
1st day of December and before the 15th day of August following; and it shall be unlawful 
and a misdemeanor to sell or offer for sale any of the birds mentioned in this section at 
any time, or for any person to kill or have in his possession more than eight grouse in any 
one day, and the word "grouse" includes all the birds mentioned in this section. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 22. It shall be unlawful to kill, ensnare, net or entrap 
at any time .any gull, owl, hawk, lark, whippoorwill, thrush, swallow, snowbird, robin, 
or other insectivorous or song birds, except the English sparrow. 

WILDFOWL.— Sec. 23. It shall be unlawful to take, kill, wound or shoot at, or 
have in possession, any wild duck, goose, snipe, shore-bird, or brant, or swan between 
the 1st day of January and the 1st day of October following; or to take, wound or 
shoot at any of the birds mentioned in this section between one hour after sunset 
and one hour before sunrise, government standard time; and it shall be unlawful to 

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KANSAS. 

FISH.— Act of February IS, 1905.— Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful to catch or take 
from any lake, pond, river, creek, stream or other waters within or bordering on this 
State, any fish, by any means or in any manner except by rod and line and fish hook, 
or hand line or set line. [For minnow net see Sec. 10.] 

BIRDS.— Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful at any time, except as hereinafter provided, to kill, 
entrap or ensnare any partridge, pinnated grouse, grouse, prairie-chicken, quail, plover, 
pheasant, oriole, meadow-lark, robin, thrush, redbird, mocking-bird, bluebird, wild 
ducks, wild geese, wild brant and red squirrels; provided, it shall not be unlawful to shoot- 
grouse or prairie-chicken from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15; doves from Aug. 1 to Sept. 15; 
plover from July 15 to Sept 15; wild ducks, wild geese and wild brant from Sept. 1 to 
April 15; quail from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15; provided further, that this act shall not 
prevent the owner of orchards from killing orioles at any time for the protection of 
such orchards. 

LICENSE.— Sec. 8. No person shall take any game which is by law protected during 
any portion of the year without first having in his possession a license. Such license 
shall be issued to any resident of the State by the county clerk of any county under 
seal, upon the payment of a fee of $1, which licenses shall be good throughout the 
State; and any non-resident making application to the secretary of State for such license 
shall pay a fee of $15, which licenses shall be good for the entire State: Provided, 
That the provisions of this section shall not be construed to affect the right of the 
owner or occupant of any land to hunt or shoot on his own premises, or the right of 
any member of any hunting club to shoot or hunt on the premises of such club. All 
licenses shall be dated the day and year of their issue and shall expire on the 30th 
day of June next thereafter. Sec. 9. Every person holding a hunter's license shall 
carry the same with him while hunting, and on demand by the fish and game warden 
or any deputy fish and game warden, or any constable, marshal or other police officer 
charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this act, shall permit said license 
to be examined by the officer demanding the same. Failure to produce such license 
for examination shall immediately terminate said license. 

BIRDS FOR SCIENCE, MINNOW NETS, PRIVATE WATERS.-Sec. 10. The 
provisions of this act shall not apply to the catching of any wild bird or fish for the 
sole purpose of using it or preserving it for scientific purposes; nor to the possession 
and use by any person of a minnow seine not to exceed six feet in length and used 
solely for the purpose of catching minnows for bait; nor to prevent the owner of 
a private or artificial pond from taking fish therefrom in any manner. 

TRESPASS. — Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons at any time 
to shoot, hunt or pursue any wild or game bird upon the occupied or improved 
premises of another, or upon any traveled or public road that adjoins any such 
occupied or improved premises, without first having obtained the written permission 
of the owner or the occupant of such premises. 

SALE, SHIPMENT.— Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful at any time to buy, sell, barter, 
ship, or offer for sale, barter, or shipment, within the State of Kansas, any squirrel, 
bird or birds named in Section 7 of this act. 

BAG LIMIT.-— Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful for any one person in any one calendar 
day to shoot or kill game birds in excess of the following indicated numbers: Grouse, 
fifteen; prairie-chicken, fifteen; quail, twenty; plover, twenty; wild ducks, twenty; 
wild geese, ten; wild brant, ten. 

[ANTELOPE are protected to 1908.] 

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UTAH. 

FISH.— Act in Effect May 5, 1905. Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful to fish for or take 
any fish from any of the waters of this State, except the Colorado, Green, Grand and 
San Juan rivers by any means or device whatever, except by means of hook and line, 
commonly known as angling, and in that way only between the 14th of June of each 
year and the 15th day of December following: Provided, That only in Utah Lake and 
Provo River, below the Oregon Short Line Railway bridge at Provo, and in Bear River 
below the county bridge at Bear River City, and in the Jordan River, carp, suckers, 
shubs, bullheads, catfish, mullet and mountain herring, may be caught with hook and 
line, commonly known as angling, at any time; and provided further, that it shall be 
unlawful to take any fish whatever from the waters' of Fish Lake or its tributaries, or 
from Seven Mile Creek below Fish Lake at any time in the year except only between 
the 20th day of July and the 15th day of December following; and provided further, that 
it shall be unlawful to take or have in possession at any time of any year any trout, 
black bass, or mountain herring less than seven inches long; and provided further, 
that the word "angling," as used in this act, is defined to be fishing with a fishing 
rod or pole held in the hand or hands, the rod or pole to have only one line 
attached thereto, and the line to have attached thereto artificial fly hooks not exceeding 
two in number, or one baited fish hook with no more than one gang of no more than 
three hooks, or one trolling spoon with no more than one gang of no more than three 
hooks. Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful to sell, kill, destroy or have in his possession 
any bass or trout whatever at any time after the 15th day of December and before the 
15th day of June following. Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer or expose 
for sale at any time any eastern brook trout, rainbow trout, grayling trout, native 
black-spotted or mountain trout, or any other species of trout or landlocked salmon, taken 
from any of the streams or waters of this or any other State. It shall be a misdemeanor 
for any person to take, catch or have in possession more than fifteen pounds of any 
one or more of said varieties or species of fish on any one day, for domestic use or 
any other purpose: Provided, That between the 14th day of June and the 15th day of 
December following of each year it shall be lawful to take, only with hook and line, 
commonly known as angling, and between the same dates, to sell, any number of 
pounds per day, of black bass from Utah, Bear and Sevier Lakes only. 

BIG GAME, IMPORTED BIRDS.— Sec. 19. It shall be unlawful at any time for 
the next succeeding four years to shoot at or in any manner kill any deer, elk, ante- 
lope, mountain sheep, otter or beaver, or any game animals or birds that may be 
brought or introduced into this State by the Fish and Game Department or by 
private individuals for the purpose of stocking the State with said animals or birds, 
or to capture and hold in confinement any of the animals or their young, mentioned in 
this section, unless it be for public or private parcks, within this State and then only 
by permission of the State Fish and Game Commissioner. Sec. 20. It shall be unlawful 
to pursue with any dog or dogs any of the animals mentioned in Section 19. 

BIRDS. — Sec. 21. It shall be unlawful to kill, ensnare, net or entrap, or have in posses- 
sion any partridge, pheasant, prairie chicken, sage hen, grouse, or mourning dove, alter the 
1st day of December and before the 15th day of August following; and it shall be unlawful 
and a misdemeanor to sell or offer for sale any of the birds mentioned in this section at 
any time, or for any person to kill or have in his possession more than eight grouse in any 
one day, and the word "grouse" includes all the birds mentioned in this section. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 22. It shall be unlawful to kill, ensnare, net or entrap 
at any time any gull, owl, hawk, lark, whippoorwill, thrush, swallow, snowbird, robin, 
or other insectivorous or song birds, except the English sparrow. 

WILDFOWL.— Sec. 23. It shall be unlawful to take, kill, wound or shoot at, or 
have in possession, any wild duck, goose, snipe, shore-bird, or brant, or swan between 
the 1st day of January and the 1st day of October following; or to take, wound or 
shoot at any of the birds mentioned in this section between one hour after sunset 
and one hour before sunrise, government standard time; and it shall be unlawful to 

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caught, taken or killed within this Commonwealth. No more than one wild-turkey 
shall be killed by any one person in any one day; nor more than four wild-turkey in 
any one season; nor shall more than one deer or fawn be killed by any one person in 
any one season. 

DEER.— Sec. 8. The open season for deer or fawn shall be from the 15th day of 
November to the first day of December of each year. No person shall make use of a 
dog or dogs in hunting deer or fawn; and the fact that a dog of any description shall 
be taken into the woods, or shall be had in the possession or under control, or shall 
be cared for or harbored, or permitted to remain with or in the camp of any person or 
persons who may go to hunt, during the open season for deer or fawn, shall render 
each person in said camp liable to the full penalty prescribed by law for the unlawful 
taking or killing of deer or fawn, upon proof, duly sworn to, that the dog did, within 
a radius of ten miles from said camp, run after, pursue or follow upon the track of 
any deer or fawn for a distance of one hundred yards. No person shall make use of 
what is known as buckshot in hunting deer or fawn, or shall kill any deer or fawn by 
or with or through the use of a gun propelling or emitting more than one pellet, 
bullet or ball at a single discharge. 

ELK.— The game laws in this Commonwealth shall not be held to apply to elk. 

DOGS PURSUING GAME.— Sec. 9. Any dog pursuing or following upon the 
track of a deer or fawn is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. Any dog, off land 
controlled by the owner of said dog, pursuing or following upon the track of any 
game-quadruped or game-bird, or other wild bird, protected by existing law, during 
what is known as the close season for such quadrupeds or birds, is hereby declared a 
public nuisance. [Such dogs may be killed by the game officers, or by land owner, under 
certain restrictions] : Provided, That dogs, when accompanied by and under the 
control of their masters, may be trained upon any of the living wild-game or birds of 
this State, excepting deer and fawn, from the 1st day of August to the 1st day of 
January next following, so long as no injury is inflicted upon said game or birds. 

SALE OF GAME.— Sec. 10. No person shall at any time buy, sell, expose for sale, or 
oflFer for sale any ruffed-grouse, commonly called pheasant; or quail, commonly called 
Virginia partridge, nor any deer, or fawn, or part thereof, which shall have been 
caught, killed or taken within this Commonwealth; nor any ruffed-grouse, commonly 
called pheasant, which shall have been killed, caught or taken outside of this Com- 
monwealth, save only during the open season therefor in this Commonwealth, and for 
thirty days thereafter; and no person shall at any time buy, sell, expose for sale, or offer 
for sale any woodcock or wild-turkey, whether caught, killed or taken within or without 
this Commonwealth. 

POSSESSION OF BIRDS. — No person shall have in his possession, except during 
the open season therefor, and fifteen days thereafter, any ruffed-grouse, commonly 
called pheasant, any English, Mongolian or Chinese pheasant, any quail, commonly 
called Virginia partridge, any wild-turkey, any woodcock, or any deer or fawn, or 
part thereof, which shall have been caught, killed or taken within this Commonwealth: 
Provided, That the owner or owners of game preserves in this State shall have the 
right to keep living deer and fawn therein at all times, to kill the same subject to the 
laws of this State, and to sell any of said deer or fawn alive, for propagating purposes 
only, after procuring the written consent of the president of the Board of Game Com- 
missioners. 

KILLING FOR HIRE.— Sec. 11. No person shall hunt or capture or kill any deer 
or fawn, wild-turkey; ruffed-grouse, commonly called pheasant; quail, commonly called 
Virginia patridge, or woodcock, for wages or hire, or valuable consideration of any 
description whatsoever, either directly or indirectly; and each day thus employed shall 
constitute a separate offense. 

SQUIRRELS, HARE, RABBIT, BEAK.- Sec. 12. The open season for squirrels shall be 
from the 1st day of October to the 1st day of December in each year, and it shall 
be unlawful for any person to kill more than six squirrels in one day. The open season 

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for hare or rabbit shall be the month of November in each year. It shall be unlawful 
to kill, take or capture any bear, of any description, save only from the 1st day of 
October to the first day of March next following: Provided, That nothing in this act 
or existing laws shall be so construed as to prevent owners, tenants, or their em- 
ployees, to kill or destroy fruit-eating and grain-devouring birds, or squirrels in the act 
of destroying fruits or cereals. It shall be lawful for the owner or lessee of any real 
estate in this State to kill, or have killed by any employee or member of his family, on 
his certain premises, any hare or rabbit at any time, as a protection to cultivated crops, 
or trees; but for no other purposes; and to kill a bear, of any description, when in 
the act of inflicting injury to either the person or property of any individual, or upon 
proof made by atfidavit of one or more persons that the bear in question has, in any 
manner, injured or damaged the person or property of any individual in this State. 

WILDFOWL. — Sec. 14. No person shall, in any one day kill more than ten wild- 
duck; or more than one hundred wild-duck in any one season; or more than two 
wild-geese or brant, in any one day; or more than ten of either of the two latter kinds 
in any one season. 

PLOVER. RAIL, REED-BIRD, SNIPE, ^^■ILDFO\VL.— Sec. 15. The open season 
for upland or grass plover shall be from the 15th day of July to the 1st day of 
December of each year. The open season for rail, reed-bird, black-bird, dove, sand- 
piper, tattler, curlew, or any other shore-bird, shall be from the 1st day of September 
to the 1st day of January next following. The open season for Wilson or jack snipe 
shall be from the 1st day of September to the 1st day of May next following. The 
open season for wild-goose, wild-duck, brant, swan, coot, or mud-hen, shall be from 
the 1st day of September to the 1st day of January next following, and from the 
1st day of April to the 16th day of the same month. Sec. 17. It shall be unlawful to 
hunt or pursue any wild water fowl, protected by law, from or with any craft propelled 
by any means other than oars, pole or hand-paddles. 

TRAPPING QLIAIL FOR STOCKING.— Sec. 18. It shall be lawful to trap quail, 
commonly called \irginia partridge, from the 1st day of January to the 1st day of April 
next following, for the purpose of keeping them alive during the winter, or for the 
purpose of separating a covey to increase the chances of propagation, but for no 
other purpose whatever; and quail thus taken shall not be transported from one locality 
to another locality in this State, except by written permission of the president of the 
Board of Game Commissioners. All birds thus taken shall be liberated in the spring, 
as soon as the weather will permit. 

TRANSPORTATION.— Sec. 19. Nothing contained in the laws of this Common- 
wealth shall be held to impose any penalty upon the transportation of game, in un- 
broken packages, in transit through this State from another State; or to the shipment 
out of the State, at any time of game killed or taken in another State, whether the 
same be in original packages or otherwise; and no penalty shall attach in any way 
when game, legally killed in this Commonwealth, is delivered in good faith to an ex- 
press company, or other common carrier, for transportation from one point to another 
point in this State, and actually delivered, if necessarily carried out of this State to 
reach its destination. 

POSSESSION IN CLOSE SEASON.— Sec. 20. Any person may have in his 
possession, after the same has been legally killed in this Commonwealth, any game- 
quadruped or game-bird, of the kinds protected by this act, for a period of fifteen days 
after the time limit for killing the same has expired. The possession of the body 
or skin, or any part thereof, of either a game-quadruped or a game-bird, at any time 
except during the open season for such game in this State, and fifteen days thereafter, 
shall in every instance be prima facie evidence that the same is held or possessed in 
violation of law. 

TAKING FOR SALE.— Act of May 27, 1897.— Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful at any 
season of the year to kill any elk, deer, fawn, wild turkey, pheasant, grouse, quail, par- 
tridge or woodcock for the purpose of selling the same. 

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EXPORT.— Sec. 6. No person shall at any time kill any of the birds or game mammals 
of this State, the killing of which at any or all times is prohibited by the laws of this 
State, with intent to ship or remove the same beyond the limits of this State, or with 
intent to allow or aid in the shipment or removal thereof out of this State; and it shall 
be unlawful for any person or persons, railroad company, express company, stage driver 
or any company or corporation, or person or persons acting in the capacity of a common 
carrier, their ofificers or employes, to knowingly receive for transportation, or transport 
or remove beyond the limits of the State any of the game birds or game mammals 
mentioned in this act. 

METHODS.— Sec. 9. No person shall kill any of the game birds or game mammals 
hereinbefore mentioned in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun; and 
no person shall set any trap, snare, net, birdlime, swivel-gun, deer lick, pitfall, turkey 
blind, or pen or any other contrivance or device whatever with intent to take any of 
the game birds or game mammals in any of the sections of this act mentioned, or make 
any use of any artificial light, battery or other deception or contrivance whatever with 
intent to attract or deceive any of the game birds or game mammals in this act men- 
tioned, except that decoys may be used in hunting duck, wild geese and brant. 

BEAVER.— Chap. 34, Laws 1903.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful to kill or capture any 
beaver. 

NON-RESIDENT, ALIEN.— Chap. 136, Laws 1903.- Sec. 1. Every non-resident and 
every unnaturalized, foreign-born resident of this Commonwealth shall be required to take 
out a license from the treasurer of the county in which he proposes to hunt before begin- 
ning to hunt in any part of this Commonwealth. Each and every person not a resident 
of this Commonwealth, and each and every person who is an unnaturalized, foreign- 
born resident of this Commonwealth, shall pay a license fee of ten dollars to the 
treasurer of the county in which he proposes to hunt, and the said treasurer shall there- 
upon issue to him a certificate bearing the name and place of residence of the applicant, 
with his description as near as may be, which said certificate shall authorize the owner 
thereof to hunt and kill game in any part of this Commonwealth, during the period of 
that year when game may be legally killed, under the restrictions and for the purposes 
allowed by law; said certificate shall not be transferable, and shall be exposed for 
examination, upon demand made by any game protector, constable, or game warden of 
the State. Sec. 2. Possession of a gun, in the fields or in the forests or on the waters 
of this Commonwealth, by an unnaturalized, foreign-born resident or a non-resident of 
this Commonwealth, without having first secured the license required by this act, shall 
be prima facie evidence of a violation of its provisions. 

[SUNDAY.— See next page.] 

Fish. 
Chapter 203, Laws 1901. 

GAME FISH.— Sec. 1. The following named species of fish are specifically within the 
protection of this act, to wit: Salmon, brook trout, and all other fish belonging to the 
family of salmon or trout; black bass, green, or Oswego bass; crappie, grass, or straw- 
berry bass, white bass, rock bass, blue pike, pike-perch; Susquehanna salmon, or wall- 
eyed pike, pike, pickerel, sun fish, and muscallonge — all of which are hereby classified 
and hereinafter designated as game fish; and shad, white fish, herring, lake herring, cisco 
herring, alewife, sturgeon, striped bass, or rock fish — all of which are hereinafter desig- 
nated as food fish. 

METHOD.— Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to fish for game fish, in any of the waters of 
this Commonwealth, in any manner except with rod, hook and line, or with hand line 
having not more than three hooks; or, for food fish, with any device not specifically 
permitted in this act. 

SEASONS.— Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful to catch or fish for, or have in possession, 
the same being killed, any species of trout, save lake trout, except from the 15th day of 
April to the 31st day of July, inclusive; or, any lake or salmon trout, except from the 1st 
day of January to the 1st day of September, inclusive; or, for any black bass, green or 
Oswego bass; crappie, grass, or strawberry bass, white bass, rock bass, or for pike-perch. 

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commonly called wall-eyed pike, Susquehanna, or jack salmon, pike, pickerel, sun fish, or 
muscallonge, except from the 15th day of June until the 15th day of February, inclusive. 

SIZE.— Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to catch and kill, or have in possession, the same 
being killed, any white bass, rock bass; crappie, strawberry, or grass bass, less than 
five inches in length; any brook or speckled trout, or any species or variety of trout, 
save lake trout, less than six inches in length; any black bass less than seven inches in 
length; any lake or salmon trout, green or Oswego bass, striped bass, otherwise called 
rock fish, blue pike, pike-perch, otherwise called wall-eyed pike, Susquehanna, or jack 
salmon, pike, pickerel, or muscallonge, less than nine inches in length. 

[Sec. 4, Act 210, Laws 1901, provides as to the boundary lakes and their tributary bays, 
that it shall be unlawful to take rock bass, crappie, strawberry or calico bass less than 
5 inches; black or yellow bass, or grass pike, less than 9 inches; or muscallonge less than 
15 inches.] 

TROUT, NUMBER.— Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch and kill 
more than fifty brook or speckled trout in any one day. 

HERRING, SHAD, STRIPED BASS.— Sec. 10. Nothing in this section shall forbid 
the catching of herring, shad, and striped bass, commonly called rock fish, at any time 
with rod, hook and line, or hand line with spoon or other hooks attached. 

TROUT, SALE FORBIDDEN.— Sec. 18. That from and after the passage of this 
act, it shall be unlawful for any proprietor, manager, clerk or agent of any market, hotel, 
boarding house, eating house, restaurant, or saloon, or any person, company or corpora- 
tion, in this Commonwealth, to purchase, sell, or expose for sale any brook or speckled 
trout; or to contract with, or to employ, any person or persons to catch or fish for brook 
or speckled trout for him or them, by the day or otherwise. [Does not apply to arti- 
ficially bred trout.] 

MINNOWS FOR BAIT.— Sec. 29. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as 
to prohibit the catching of bait fish by the means of minnow nets, for angling or scien- 
tific purposes; or which shall prohibit any person from catching game fish with nets, or 
during close season for such fish, in waters owned by himself, for the purpose of stocking 
other waters, or the operation of any hatchery for the artificial propagation of such fish. 

CERTAIN FISH NOT PROHIBITED.— Sec. 31. That nothing in this act shall prohibit 
the taking of any fish, not herein specifically designated as game or food fish, at any time 
of the year, with rod, hook and line, or with hand line having not more than three hooks. 

SUNDAY.— Act June 3, 1878.— Sec. 17. There shall be no hunting or shooting oi 
fishing on the first day of the week, called Sunday. 

BULLFROGS.— Act April 6, 1903.— It shall be unlawful to kill any bullfrogs, only 
from the 1st day of July to the 1st day of November. 



WASHINGTON. 

BIG GAME.— Chap. 71, Laws 1903.— Sec. 1. Every person who shall between the 
15th day of December and 15th day of September following kill any deer or caribou 
shall be guilty of misdemeanor. Every person who shall during the season kill more 
than four deer, or any spotted fawn, shall be guilty of misdemeanor. Sec. 2. Every 
person who shall kill any female elk, moose, antelope, mountain sheep or mountain goat, 
or who shall between the first day of November and 15th day of September following 
kill any male moose, elk, caribou, antelope, mountain sheep or mountain goat shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall during the season kill more than one 
male elk, moose, antelope, or caribou, or more than two male mountain sheep or 
mountain goat, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

ELK PROTECTED TO 1915.— Act 1905.— Until October 1, 1915, it shall be unlawful 
to kill any of the elk (Cervus alces, or Cervus canadensis) within the State of Washington. 

DEER ON ISLANDS.— Act 1905.— That any person who shall kill, or shall knowingly 

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permit any dog owned by him or under his control to chase any deer on any of the 
islands in the State of Washington shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

METHODS.— [Fire-hunting forbidden. Killing for hides or heads forbidden, or killing 
unless flesh be eaten. Dogs forbidden except in the country lying westward of the east- 
ward boundaries of the counties of Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, King, Pierce, Lewis 
and Skamania, between the 1st day of October and the 1st day of November.] 

BIRDS.— Sec. 3. Every person who shall kill any grouse, partridge, prairie chicken, 
sage hen, native pheasant or ptarmigan between the first day of January [and] the first 
day of September, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, that in the county of 
Kittitas it shall be unlawful to kill any prairie chicken between the first day of October 
and 10th day of September, and in the counties lying east of the western boundary of 
the counties of Okanogan, Chelan, Kittitas, Yakima, and Klickitat, it shall be unlawful 
to kill any of the game birds mentioned in this section between the 15th day of Novem- 
ber and 15th day of August following. Sec. 4. Every person who shall kill more than 
ten prairie chickens or ten grouse, partridge, sage hen, native pheasant or ptarmigan, 
Chinese or Mongolian pheasant, or more than fifteen quail of any kind in one day, shall 
be guilty of misdemeanor. Provided in the county of Kittitas no person shall in one 
day kill more than five prairie chickens. 

WILD FOWL.— Sec. 5. Every person who shall kill any swan, goose, brant, sandhill 
crane, snipe, mallard duck, canvasback, widgeon teel [teal] woodduck, spoonbill, grey or 
black duck, sprig-tail, or other game duck between the first day of March and the first 
day of September, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [The foregoing as to geese and 
brant is superseded by] Act 1905. It shall be unlawful to kill any wild goose or brant 
between the 1st day of May and the 1st day of September. Wild goose, duck or brant 
may be hunted from any blind or obstruction, provided that this shall not be con- 
strued to include sneak boats. Sink box, sink boat, sneak boat, battery, gun other than 
one shot from shoulder, shooting between one hour after sunset and one-half hour before 
sunrise, of making any light on grovmds frequented by wildfowl, forbidden. Sec. 6. Every 
person who shall kill more than twenty-five snipe, ducks, geese, brant in one day, shall 
be guilty of misdemeanor. Provided, That the above mentioned birds shall not be 
fired at from any gasolene, naphtha, or steam launch, or other boat propelled otherwise 
than by hand. Act 1905.— It shall be unlawful to kill any geese, brant or other water 
fowl upon the Columbia or the Snake rivers, or within one-half mile of the shore 
throughout the following counties: Klickitat, Walla Walla, Franklin, Kittitas, Douglas, 
Columbia, Garfield and Whitman. 

QUAIL.— Sec. 7. Every person who shall kill a California valley or mountain quail. Bob 
White quail, or other kind of quail between the first day of January and the first day 
of October, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Provided that it shall be unlawful to kill 
any of the birds named in any of the counties lying east of the western boundary of the 
counties of Okanogan, Chelan, Kittitas, Yakima and Klickitat before September 15th, 1908, 

PHEASANTS, CHINESE QUAIL.— Sec. 8. Every person who shall kill any im- 
ported or oriental pheasant, golden, silver, ring neck, copper, bronze, Chinese or 
Mongolian pheasant, or Chinese or Mongolian quail, before the 15th day of October, 
1906, shall be guilty of misdemeanor. [Protected in the counties lying east of Okanogan, 
Chelan, Kittitas, Yakima and Klickitat, to September 15, 1908.] 

ORIENTAL PHEASANTS.— Laws 1905 [supersedes above as to male pheasants]. 
It shall be lawful to kill any of the male birds of the oriental, golden, silver, ring- 
necked, copper, bronze, Chinese, Mongolian pheasants between the 15th day of October 
and the 1st day of January in any year: Provided, That this section shall not apply to 
counties lying east of the summit of the Cascade range. 

POSSESSION. — [Sec. 10. Possession of game is forbidden at all times; but any person 
may have in his possession in the open season animals and birds taken by him in the 
open season.] 

EXPORT.— Code.— Sec. 7358. [Export forbidden.] Provided, however. That upon the 
granting of a similar privilege by the Legislature of the State of Oregon or Idaho to the 

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citizens or residents of the State of Washington, nothing in this section shall be con- 
strued to prevent any citizen or resident of the State of Oregon or Idaho from personally 
taking with him any game to the limit of one day's hunt, killed by himself, in the State 
of Washington when it is lawful to take and kill the same: Provided, That nothing in 
this section shall be construed to prevent any common carrier from receiving any of the 
game birds or animals enumerated in this act [or] from transferring them from one point 
to another point within this State when accompanied by the affidavit of the shipper that 
the same is not shipped for sale or profit. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Laws 1903, P. 256.— Sec. 1. No person shall catch, kill or have 
in possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than a game bird. The following only 
shall be considered game birds: The Anatidae, commonly known as swans, geese, brant 
and river and sea ducks; the Rallidae, commonly known as rails, coots, mudhens and 
gallinules; the Limicola:, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, 
sandpipers, tattlers and curlews; the Gallinas, commonly known as grouse, prairie 
chickens, pheasants, partridges and quail. Sec. 7. The English or European or house 
sparrow, jays, magpies and chicken hawks are not included among the birds protected. 

LICENSE.— Act 1905. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt for, pursue, catch 
or kill any of the game animals or birds protected by the laws of this State during 
the open season when it is lawful to kill the same, without such person having in his 
possession at the time a license therefor, duly issued to him by the auditor of one of 
the counties of this State or by the State Auditor. The county auditor of each county 
in the State of Washington, upon the payment of one dollar by any resident of this 
State, five dollars by any non-resident of this State, or fifty dollars by any non-resident 
alien, shall issue to such person a license, which shall entitle the holder to kill any of 
the game animals or birds protected by the laws of the State of Washington within the 
county where such license is issued, during the open season, when it is lawful to kill 
the same, for the term of one year; and the State Auditor, upon the payment of five 
dollars by any resident of this State, ten dollars by any non-resident of this State, or 
fifty dollars by any non-resident alien, shall issue to such person a license, which said 
license shall entitle the holder to hunt for, take, catch or kill any of the game animals 
or birds protected by the laws of the State of Washington, within the State, during the 
open season, when it is lawful to kill the same, for the term of one year, in any lawful 
manner. Every non-resident or non-resident alien who shall have procured a license 
to hunt in this State, shall be entitled to take from the State all game animals killed 
by him, not to exceed the number of each of said game animals as is allowed by law 
to be killed in any one year, and game birds killed by him not to exceed the number 
allowed by law to be killed by any person in any one day; but before any person 
shall be entitled to take any such game out of this State he shall make an affidavit 
before a notary public or other officer having a seal, stating that the game to be so re- 
moved from the State was killed by him in a lawful manner, and that the said game is 
not being exported for the purpose of sale. 

TROUT.— Laws 1895, P. 334.— Sec. 1. Every person who shall during the months 
of November, December, January, February and March take any brook trout [or] mountain 
trout, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall take any food fishes, 
except for propagating the same, for a period of three years after the same shall have 
been implanted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [Angling only permitted for trout 
of any species. The close season for trout in Chelan county by act of 1905 is April 15 
to July 1.] 

BASS. PICKEREL, PERCH, PIKE.— Laws 1901, P. 324.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlaw- 
ful to kill any bass, perch, pickerel or pike, between the 15th day of May and the 1st 
day of July. [Shall not be taken save with hook and line.] 

SALMON.— [Forbidden to take salmon in the tributaries of Puget Sound in April; 
or in the Columbia River or its tributaries between March 15 (at 12 M.) and April 15 
(12 M.), or August 25 (12 M.) and Sept 10 (12 M.), except Snake River; or in Snake 
River between March 1 and April 15, or August 1 and September 1.] 

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OREGON. 

BEAVER.— Act Feb. 27, 1901, as amended l'J03.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful at any 
time for a period of twenty years from the date of passage of this act to kill any beaver. 

SPOTTED FAWN.— Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful at any time to kill any spotted fawn. 

DEER.— Code Sec. 2010, as amended 1905. it shall be unlawful at any time between 
the 1st day of November of each year and the 15lh day of August of the following 
year to kill, or have in possession, any buck deer. It shall be unlawful at any time 
between the 1st day of November of each year and the 1st day of September of the 
following year to kill, or have in possession, any female deer: Provided, The fore- 
going part of this section shall not apply to the counties of Grant, Harney, Malheur, 
and Bakers. It shall be unlawful at any time within the State of Oregon, between 
one hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise of any day of any year, to 
hunt, pursue, take, kill, injure, or destroy, any deer; and it shall be unlawful at any 
time to hunt, or pursue any deer with dog or dogs, with intent to kill or injure such 
deer; and it shall be unlawful for any person to take in any open season, more than 
five deer. It shall be unlawful within the State of Oregon at any time to sell, or 
offer for sale, barter or exchange, any deer whatever. 

ELK.— Act Feb. 27, 1901.— Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to kill any elk at any time 
between the 15th day of October of each year and the 15th day of September of the 
following year; and it will be unlawful for any person to kill more than one elk in the 
open season of any year. 

SILVER GREY SQUIRREL.— Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful at any time between the 
1st day of January and the 1st day of October to kill any silver grey squirrel 
(Sciurus fossom): Provided, however, That this shall not be construed to apply to any 
squirrel that burrows in the ground. 

WILDFOWL.— Code, Sec. 2014. It shall be unlawful at any time between the 1st day of 
February and the 1st day of September of any year to take, or have in possession, any 
.wild goose, wild swan, mallard duck, wood duck, widgeon, teal, spoonbill, gray, black, 
sprigtail, or canvasback, or any duck. And it shall be unlawful at any time for any 
person to kill any greater number than fifty of the hereinbefore enumerated ducks in 
one week. It shall be unlawful at any time to shoot any wild goose, on any island or 
sandbar in or along the Columbia River, and within the State east of the Cascade 
Mountains on which wild geese habitually rest or roost. In the county of Coos, the 
season during which it shall be lawful to take the fowl mentioned in this section, shall 
be from the 1st day of August in each year to the 1st day of February in the 
following year; and in the county of Lake, the season during which it shall be lawful 
to take the fowl mentioned in this section, shall be from the 15th day of August in 
each year to the 1st day of April in the following year; and all the provisions of 
this section shall apply to the said counties of Coos and Lake, except as to the time 
of the open season. 

WATER-RAIL AND UPLAND PLOVER.— Act Feb. 27, 1901.— Sec. 8. It shall be 
unlawful at any time between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of August to kill 
any water-rail or any upland plover. 

WILD FOWL METHODS.-Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful to use any sinkbox, sneak- 
boat, skiff or other boat on the Columbia River or any of its tributaries (except the 
Willamette and its tributaries above Oregon City) for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, 
geese, swan or other water fowl therefrom. It shall be unlawful at any time to use any 
sinkbox, sinkboat or sneakboat on any waters for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, 
geese, swan or other water fowl therefrom. Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful to use any 
battery, swivel or pivot gun, or other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired 
from the shoulder, for shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl. Sec. 12. It 
shall be unlawful between one hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise to fire 
off any gun or build any fire, or flash any light, or burn any powder or other inflammable 
substance upon the margin or in the vicinity of or upon any lake, pond, slough or 
other feeding grounds frequented by wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl 

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with intent to shoot, kill or disturb any of such water fowl: Provided, however, That it 
shall be lawful to shoot ducks and geese in or upon grain fields at any time to prevent 
the destruction of grain or growing crops. Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful to build or use 
anv blind or other structure in any public lake or river which stands more than 100 feet 
out from the shore for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water 
fowl therefrom. 

UPLAND GAME.— Sec. 14. Except as provided in sections 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, 
it shall be unlawful at any time between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of 
October following to kill any prairie chicken, grouse, native pheasant (sometimes called 
ruffled grouse), ring-neck or China torquatus pheasant, quail, bobwhite quail or par- 
tridge; and it shall be unlawful to kill any greater number than ten of the game birds 
enumerated in this section in one day. [Douglas county close season for grouse, ruffled 
grouse, Dec. 1 to Aug. 1; other birds, Dec. 1 to Sept. 1.] 

EAST OF CASCADES.— Code, Sec. 2021. It shall be unlawful at any time in that 
portion of the State of Oregon lying east of the Cascade Mountains, to kill, or have in 
possession, except for scientific or breeding purposes, any pheasant, except native 
pheasant (sometimes called ruffled grouse); or to kill, or have in possession, except for 
scientific or breeding purpose, any sage hen, sage cock, grouse, or native pheasant (some- 
times called ruffled grouse), at any time betweent the 1st day of December of each 
year and the 15th day of August of the following year; or to kill, or have in possession, 
except for scientific or breeding purposes, any quail, at any time except between the 
second Saturday in September of each year and the third Tuesday of the same month 
in the same year; and it shall be unlawful for any person during such open season 
to kill more than six quail in one day, or more than twelve quail in one week; or to kill, 
or have in possession, except for scientific or breeding purposes, any ring-neck or 
Mongolian pheasant or China {Torquatus) pheasant, at any time within five years after 
the passage of this act, or at any time after five years after the passage of this act. 
except between the 15tli day of September of each year and the 1st day of December 
following in the same year. Sec. 2022. It shall be unlawful in the State of Oregon, 
except in Wasco and Umatilla counties, to kill, or have in possession, except for 
scientific or breeding purposes, any prairie chicken at any time between the date of 
the passage of this act and the 15th day of September, 1909; and from and after said 
15th day of September, 1909, it shall be unlawful in the State of Oregon, except in 
Wasco and Umatilla counties to kill any prairie chicken at any time between the 15th 
day of November of each year and the 15th day of September of the following year. 

WASCO COUNTY-PRAIRIE CHICKEN, QUAIL.— Act Feb. 27, 1901.— Sec. 18. It 
shall be unlawful in the county of Wasco between the 15th day of October and the Isf 
day of August following, or at any time when the ground is covered with snow suiflcient 
for tracking, to kill any prairie chicken; or to kill any quail between the 15th day of 
October and the 1st day of August following. 

TILLAMOOK COUNTY— RUFFLED GROUSE, PHEASANT, BLUE GROUSE.— 
Sec. 19. It shall be unlawful in the county of Tillamook to kill any native pheasant 
(sometimes called ruffled grouse) or any ring-necked or China (torquatus) pheasant at 
any time between the 1st day of December of each year ana the 15th day of September 
of the following year; and any blue grouse between the 15th day of October and the 1st 
day of August the following year. 

COUNTIES OF JOSEPHINE, JACKSON, COOS, CURRY AND CLATSOP— 
RING-NECK OR CHINA TORQUATUS PHEASANT-CLOSED UNTIL 1904.-Sec. 
20. It shall be unlawful in the counties of Jackson, Josephine, Coos, Curry and Clatsop, 
between the 1st day of December of each year and the 15th day of September of the 
following year to kill any ring-neck or China (torquatus) pheasant. 

INTRODUCED BIRDS.— Sec. 22. It shall be unlawful between the 1st day of 
December of any year and the 1st day of October of the followin year to kill any 
English or gray partridge, capercalzie, moor hen, wild turkey, woodcock, silver pheasant, 
golden pheasant, copper pheasant, green Japanese pheasant or Reeves pheasant. 

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OREGON. 

BEAVER.-Act Feb. 27, 1901, as amended l<J03.-Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful at any 
time for a period of twenty years from the date of passage of this act to kill any beaver. 
SPOTTED FAWN.— Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful at any time to kill any spotted fawn. 
DEER.— Code Sec. 2010, as amended 1905. It shall be unlawful at any time between 
the 1st day of November of each year and the 15lh day of August of the followmg 
year to kill, or have in possession, any buck deer. It shall be unlawful at any time 
between the 1st day of November of each year and the 1st day of September of the 
following year to kill, or have in possession, any female deer: Provided, The fore- 
going part of this section shall not apply to the counties of Grant, Harney, Malheur, 
and Bakers. It shall be unlawful at any time within the State of Oregon, between 
one hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise of any day of any year, to 
hunt, pursue, take, kill, injure, or destroy, any deer; and it shall be unlawful at any 
time to hunt, or pursue any deer with dog or dogs, with intent to kill or injure such 
deer; and it shall be unlawful for any person to take in any open season, more than 
five deer. It shall be unlawful within the State of Oregon at any time to sell, or 
offer for sale, barter or exchange, any deer whatever. 

ELK.— Act Feb. 27, 1901.— Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to kill any elk at any time 
between the 15th day of October of each year and the 15th day of September of the 
following year; and it will be unlawful for any person to kill more than one elk in the 
open season of any year. 

SILVER GREY SQUIRREL.— Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful at any time between the 
1st day of January and the 1st day of October to kill any silver grey squirrel 
(Sciurus fossom): Provided, however, That this shall not be construed to apply to any 
squirrel that burrows in the ground. 

WILDFOWL.— Code, Sec. 2014. It shall be unlawful at any time between the 1st day of 
February and the 1st day of September of any year to take, or have in possession, any 
.wild goose, wild swan, mallard duck, wood duck, widgeon, teal, spoonbill, gray, black, 
sprigtail, or canvasback, or any duck. And it shall be unlawful at any time for any 
person to kill any greater number than fifty of the hereinbefore enumerated ducks in 
one week. It shall be unlawful at any time to shoot any wild goose, on any island or 
sandbar in or along the Columbia River, and within the State east of the Cascade 
Mountains on which wild geese habitually rest or roost. In the county of Coos, the 
season during which it shall be lawful to take the fowl mentioned in this section, shall 
be from the 1st day of August in each year to the 1st day of February in the 
following year; and in the county of Lake, the season during which it shall be lawful 
to take the fowl mentioned in this section, shall be from the 15th day of August in 
€ach year to the 1st day of April in the following year; and all the provisions of 
this section shall apply to the said counties of Coos and Lake, except as to the time 
of the open season. 

WATER-RAIL AND UPLAND PLOVER.— Act Feb. 27, I901.-Sec. S. It shall be 
unlawful at any time between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of August to kill 
any water-rail or any upland plover. 

WILD FOWL METHODS.— Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful to use any sinkbox, sneak- 
boat, skiff or other boat on the Columbia River or any of its tributaries (except the 
Willamette and its tributaries above Oregon City) for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, 
geese, swan or other water fowl therefrom. It shall be unlawful at any time to use any 
sinkbox, sinkboat or sneakboat on any waters for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, 
geese, swan or other water fowl therefrom. Sec. U. It shall be unlawful to use any 
battery, swivel or pivot gun, or other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired 
from the shoulder, for shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl. Sec. 12. It 
shall be unlawful between one hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise to fire 
off any gun or build any fire, or flash any light, or burn any powder or other inflammable 
substance upon the margin or in the vicinity of or upon any lake, pond, slough or 
other feeding grounds frequented by wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl 

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with intent to shoot, kill or disturb any of such water fowl: Provided, however, That it 
shall be lawful to shoot ducks and geese in or upon grain fields at any time to prevent 
the destruction of grain or growing crops. Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful to build or use 
anv blind or other structure in any public lake or river which stands more than 100 feet 
out from the shore for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water 
fowl therefrom. 

UPLAND GAME.— Sec. 14. Except as provided in sections 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, 
it shall be unlawful at any time between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of 
October following to kill any prairie chicken, grouse, native pheasant (sometimes called 
ruffled grouse), ring-neck or China torquatus pheasant, quail, bobwhite quail or par- 
tridge; and it shall be unlawful to kill any greater number than ten of the game birdb 
enumerated in this section in one day. [Douglas county close season for grouse, rufHed 
grouse, Dec. 1 to Aug. 1; other birds, Dec. 1 to Sept. 1.] 

EAST OF CASCADES.— Code, Sec. 2021. It shall be unlawful at any time in that 
portion of the State of Oregon lying east of the Cascade IMountains, to kill, or have in 
possession, except for scientific or breeding purposes, any pheasant, except native 
pheasant (sometimes called rufHed grouse) ; or to kill, or have in possession, except for 
scientific or breeding purpose, any sage hen, sage cock, grouse, or native pheasant (some- 
times called ruffled grouse), at any time betweent the 1st day of December of each 
year and the 15th day of August of the following year; or to kill, or have in possession, 
e.xcept for scientific or breeding purposes, any quail, at any time except between the 
second Saturday in September of each year and the third Tuesday of the same month 
in the same year; and it shall be unlawful for any person during such open season 
to kill more than six quail in one day, or more than twelve quail in one week; or to kill, 
or have in possession, except for scientific or breeding purposes, any ring-neck or 
Mongolian pheasant or China {Torquatus) pheasant, at any time within five years after 
the passage of this act, or at any time after five years after the passage of this act. 
except between the 15th day of September of each year and the 1st day of December 
following in the same year. Sec. 2022. It shall be unlawful in the State of Oregon,' 
except in Wasco and Umatilla counties, to kill, or have in possession, except for 
scientific or breeding purposes, any prairie chicken at any time between the date of 
the passage of this act and the 15th day of September, 1909; and from and after said 
15th day of September, 1909, it shall be unlawful in the State of Oregon, except in 
Wasco and Umatilla counties to kill any prairie chicken at any time between the 15th 
day of November of each year and the 15th day of September of the following year. 

WASCO COUNTY-PRAIRIE CHICKEN, QUAIL.-Act Feb. 27, 1901.— Sec. 18. It 
shall be unlawful in the county of Wasco between the 15th day of October and the Isf 
day of August following, or at any time when the ground is covered with snow sufficient 
for tracking, to kill any prairie chicken; or to kill any quail between the 15th day of 
October and the 1st day of August following. 

TILLAMOOK COUNTY— RUFFLED GROUSE, PHEASANT, BLUE GROUSE.— 
Sec. 19. It shall be unlawful in the county of Tillamook to kill any native pheasant 
(sometimes called ruffled grouse) or any ring-necked or China (torquatus) pheasant at 
any time between the 1st day of December of each year ana the 15th day of September 
of the following year; and any blue grouse between the 15th day of October and the 1st 
day of August the following year. 

COUNTIES OF JOSEPHINE, JACKSON, COOS, CURRY AND CLATSOP- 
RING-NECK OR CHINA TORQUATUS PHEASANT— CLOSED UNTIL 1904.— Sec. 
20. It shall be unlawful in the counties of Jackson, Josephine, Coos, Curry and Clatsop, 
between the 1st day of December of each year and the 15th day of September of the 
following year to kill any ring-neck or China (torquatus) pheasant. 

INTRODUCED BIRDS.— Sec. 22. It shall be unlawful between the 1st day of 
December of any year and the 1st day of October of the foUowin year to kill any 
English or gray partridge, capercalzie, moor hen, wild turkey, woodcock, silver pheasant, 
golden pheasant, copper pheasant, green Japanese pheasant or Reeves pheasant. 

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BIRDS NOT GAME.— Act. of Feb. 25, 1895.— Sec. 25. Every person who shall take, 
kill or have in his possession, except for breeding purposes, any nightingale, skylark, black 
thrush, gray singing thrush, linnet, goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinch, bullfinch, red-breasted 
European robin, black starling, grosbeak, Oregon robin or meadow lark or mocking bird, 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 27. That every person who shall willfully take, 
injure or destroy any seagull shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

SALE, EXPORT.— Chapter 117, Laws 1905.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any one 
to sell or offer for sale, barter or exchange, or have in possession for the purpose of 
sale, barter or exchange, or to ship, or cause to be carried or transported beyond 
the boundaries of the State of Oregon, for sale, barter or .exchange, except for 
scientific and breeding purposes, any deer, moose, mountain sheep, elk, silver-gray 
squirrel, wild swan, mallard duck, wood duck, widgeon, teal, spoonbill, gray, black, 
sprigtail, or canvasback, or any duck, water rail, upland plover, prairie chicken, grouse, 
pheasant, ruffled grouse, ring-neck or China pheasant, quail, bob white, quail or partridge, 
capercailzie, wild turkey, woodcock, silver pheasant, golden pheasant, copper pheasant, 
green pheasant, or Reeves pheasant. 

LICENSE.— Chapter 204, Laws 1905.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person 
within the State of Oregon to kill any of the game animals, fowls, or birds, pro- 
tected by the laws of the State of Oregon, during the open season when it is lawful 
to kill the same, without such person having in his personal possession and carrying 
with him at the time of said killing, a license therefor, duly issued to him by the 
county clerk of one of the counties: Provided, however, that no license shall be 
required of a man or members of his own family for permission to hunt upon his 
own lands of this State. Sec. 2. Upon application therefor by any person, either a resident 
or non-resident of this State, an annual license shall be issued to such person by the 
county clerk to whom such application shall be made. No license shall be granted for 
a period longer than one year, and all licenses shall expire on the 31st day of December 
next after their issuance, and not more than one license shall be issfued to the same 
person in any one year, and the same shall not be transferable. Every resident 
applicant for such license, upon applying for the same, shall pay to the county clerk 
the sum of $1.00, and every non-resident shall pay therefor the sum of $10. 

TROUT.— Sec. 28. It shall be unlawful to take any trout, except salmon trout, during 
the months of November, December, January, February and March of any year; and it 
shall be unlawful to take any trout, char or salmon less than five inches in length; and it 
shall be unlawful to take any trout by any means whatever, except with hook and line; 
and any person fishing with hook and line who shall find any trout, char or salmon of 
less than five inches in length caught thereon, shall immediately, with care and the least 
possible injury to the fish, let loose the same, and transmit the fish to the water without 
violence. 

SALMON TROUT.— Sec. 29. It shall be unlawful to take any salmon trout by any 
means whatever, except with hook and line, or to fish for salmon trout in any other than 
tide waters during the months of November, December, January, February and March 
of each year. 

NIGHT FISHING.— Sec. 31 [as amended 1903]. It shall be unlawful for any person, 
at any time between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, to take, kill, 
or capture, or attempt to take, kill, or capture, any fish known as the trout: Provided, 
That within the tide waters of the Coquille River, trout fishing, with hook and line, 
shall be allowed at any [hour] of the night. 

LIMIT OF CATCH.— Sec. 32. It shall be unlawful to take more than 125 trout in 
one day. 

TRANSPORT.\l"l().N, i:.\ TO K T.— |.Sec. -11 prescribes that packages of game or fish for 
shipment must be labeled. Sec. 42 forliids the export of game or fish except for purposes 
of propagation or exhibition. lUit a citizen of Washington may take out the game or 
fish captured by himself in one day.] 

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COLORADO. 
Laws of 1903, as Amended 1905. 

GAME AND FISH PROTECTED.— Law of 1903.— Sec. 1. No person shall at any 
time of the year, or in any manner, pursue, take, wound or kill any bison, buffalo, elk, 
deer, antelope, mountain sheep or beaver, or any of the following wild birds, viz.; 
Turkey, prairie chicken, sage chicken, grouse, quail, pheasant, partridge, ptarmigan, 
duck, goose, brant, swan, crane, water fowl, pigeon, dove, snipe or curlew, or any trout, 
whitefish, grayling, sunfish, bass, catfish, wall-eyed pike or other food fish, or have the 
same in possession, except as permitted by this act. 

OPEN SEASONS.— Sec. 7.— It shall be lawful to kill, during the open season therefor, 
in the manner, of the kind, for the purpose and to the number and extent in this section 
provided, the following game and fish, and the open seasons therefor in each year 
shall begin and end as follows, but not otherwise, and at no other time, namely: 

BIG GAME.— (1) The open season for deer having horns shall begin Sept. 25 and 
end Oct. 10 of each year. For antelope having horns shall begin Oct. 15, and end the 
25th of the same month, commencing with the year 1907. [Mountain sheep, antelope, 
elk, protected to 1907.] 

GROUSE., WILD TURKEY.— (3) The open season for prairie chickens and grouse 
shall begin Sept. 1 and end Oct. 20 next ensuing. The open season for sage chickens 
shall begin Aug. 1 and end Oct. 1. [Wild turkey protected to 1907.] 

WILDFOWL. — 4. The open season for wild ducks, geese, snipes, curlews, brants, 
swans and other water fowls and shore birds, shall begin September 10 and end April 
15, next ensuing, except in altitudes exceeding 7,000 feet above sea level, where the 
season shall begin September 15 and end May 1; Provided, That no food shall be 
placed within 100 yards of any shore or blind for the purpose of feeding wild fowls. 

DOVES, QUAIL. — (5) The open season for doves shall begin Aug. 1 and end Aug. 15. 
[Quail protected always.] 

TROUT.— (7) The open season for trout not less than seven inches in length, and 
other fish, shall begin June 1 and end Oct. 31 next ensuing; and in no instance shall 
fishing be done between the hours of 10 o'clock P. M., and 4 o'clock A. M. : Provided, 
That the public shall have the right to fish in any stream in this State stocked at the 
public expense, subject to action and trespass for any damage done property along the 
bank of any such stream. 

LIMITS.— 8. The right given by this section to take or kill game and fish is limited 
to food purposes only, and to twenty-five ducks and twenty-five other birds and twenty 
pounds of trout and fifty pounds of other fish for each person in any one calendar day, 
and no person shall take, kill or have in possession in any one open season more than 
one deer with horns. Nor shall any person have in possession at any one time more 
than fifty ducks and fifty other birds, nor more than twenty-five pounds of trout or fifty 
pounds of other fish. 

METHODS, SALE.— 10. No game shall be killed in the night, nor with a steel or 
hard-pointed bullet, nor with any weapon other than an ordinary shoulder gun or pistol, 
nor shall any fish be taken except in the ordinary manner with a line and rod 
held in the hand, and the hook or hooks baited with natural or artificial bait; and fish- 
ing with snag hooks or trot lines, or lines having more than five hooks thereon, shall 
not be deemed the ordinary manner of fishing; nor shall any person fish within two 
hundred feet of any fishway, nor dispose of to another, except by actual donation, any 
game or fish taken or killed under the provisions of this section; Provided, That dogs, 
blinds, sinks and decoys may be used for hunting birds. [This section •"hall not apply 
to parks and lakes of Class A licensed.] 

[LICENSED GAME PARKS are provided for with special regulations.] 

HUNTING LICENSES.— Sec. 1. No person shall shoot or engage in hunting any 
game protected by law without having first procured a license therefor, and having at 
the same time such license in his possession; Provided, That nothing in this section 

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shall be construed as affecting the right of any person to hunt or shoot on his own 
land without license. Sec. 3. Non-resident hunting licenses shall be procured from the 
Commissioner; such licenses may be as follows: (1) A general hunting license to 
hunt game quadrupeds and birds in any and all counties in the State. [Fee, $25.] 
(2) A bird hunting license to hunt birds only, in the county therein named. [Fee, $2 for 
one day, $1 for each additional day.] Sec. 5. A State hunting license shall be issued 
by the Commissioner to hunt game quadrupeds and birds in any or all counties of the 
State. [Fee, $1.] 

TRANSPORTATION.— Sec. 9. The [hunting license] coupon attached to game law- 
fully taken or killed and lawfully in possession shall authorize possession, use, storage 
and transportation of the carcass, or any part thereof within the State during the open 
season therefor of the year of its date and for five days thereafter. The coupon so at- 
tached to the hide, head, feet or horns shall authorize any licensed taxidermist to dress 
or mount the same, and shall render it lawful for any person to hold, possess ani 
transport the same within this State so long as such coupon is so attached. [Evidence 
of sex of quadrupeds must be retained.] 

GUIDE LICENSES.— Sec. 1. No person shall directly or indirectly engage or act 
as guide, as the term is commonly understood, for any person or party engaged in hunt- 
ing protected game, without having satisfied the Commissioner of his reliability and 
competency, and procured from the Commissioner a license therefor, and having the 
same in his possession while so acting. [License fee, $5, in addition to State license 
fee of $1.] 

NORTH DAKOTA. 

HUNTING PERMIT.— Act of 18119.— Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
kill any of the wild animals or birds, hereinafter mentioned without having first obtained 
a permit as hereinafter provided; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall 
prevent any resident of this State or member of his family living at home from hunting 
on lands owned or controlled by him during the open season, as provided by law. 
Sec. 4. The county auditor shall fill out and issue one of such pemits to any person 
applying therefor on payment of $25, if the applicant is a non-resident of the State; and 
on payment of seventy-five cents, if the applicant is known to the auditor or satisfactorily 
proves to him to be a resident of this State; provided, that any non-resident who may 
own cultivated lands, or be carrying on the cultivation of any lands in this State, not 
less than one-quarter section, for a period of not less than one year prior to the time 
of making application for such license, shall be entitled to take out a resident's permit, 
whether such non-resident is the owner of land so cultivated in whole or in part; pro- 
vided, that such non-resident shall take out such permit in the county where such cultiva- 
tion is carried on. Such permit shall authorize the holder to hunt throughout the State 
either with or without dogs. All permits shall expire on the 31st day of December next 
after their issuance. It shall be unlawful for the State game warden or any of his 
deputies, or any county auditor, to issue to any person any complimentary or special 
permit, or in any way, directly or indirectly, to grant permission to or authorize any 
person to violate any of the provisions of the game laws of this State. 

SEASONS AND METHODS.-Revised Codes of 1899.— Sec. 7677 [as amended 1901]. 
Every person who either — 

1. Shoots or kills any prairie chicken, pinnated grouse, sharp tailed grouse, rufHed 
grouse, or woodcock, between the 15th day of October and the 1st day of September 
following, or any song bird or insect-eating bird, except snipe or plover, at any time; or 

2. Shoots, kills or takes any quail, English or Chinese pheasant or wild swan, until 
after the 1st day of September, A. D. 1905, and after that time between the 15th day of 
v.)ctober and the 1st day of September following; or 

3. Shoots or kills any wild duck between the 1st day of May and the 1st day of 
September following; or 

4. Shoots or kills any wild goose, crane, or brant between the 1st day of May and 
the 1st day of September following; or 

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5. At any time kills or shoots any wild duck, goose or brant with any swivel gun 
or other gun except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder; or in hunting such birds 
makes use of any artificial light or battery; or 

6. Uses or employs any trap, snare, net or bird lime, or medicated, drugged or 
poisoned food or grain to capture or kill any of the birds mentioned in subdivisions 
1, 2, 3 or 4 of this section; or 

7. Wantonly destroys any nest or eggs of any of the birds mentioned in subdivisions 
1, 2, 3 or 4 of this section; or 

8. Shoots or kills any buflfalo, moose, elk, antelope, caribou or mountain sheep at any 
time; or any deer between the 1st day of December and the 10th day of November follow- 
ing; or 

9. Shoots, kills, traps or takes any beaver or otter at any time prior to the 1st day of 
January, A. D., 1920, or thereafter between the 10th day of December and the 10th day 
of November following; or 

10. At any time uses or employs any hound or dog in running or driving any of the ani- 
mals mentioned in subdivision 8 of this section; or 

11. Sets any spring or other gun, trap, snare or other device to kill, wound or destroy 
any of the animals mentioned in subdivision 8 of this section; or 

12. Shoots or kills in any one day more than twenty-five of the game birds mentioned 
in subdivisions 1, 2, 3 or 4 of this section, or in any one season more than five of the 
animals mentioned in subdivision 8 of this section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

ANTELOPE PROTECTED— Senate Bill No. 92, Laws 1901.— Sec. 1. It shall not be 
lawful to hunt, shoot or kill or capture any antelope within the limits of the State of 
North Dakota at any time after this act shall become a law, prior to Jan. 1, 1911. 

SALE.— House Bill No. 167, Laws 1901.— Sec. 1. Every person who sells or exposes 
for sale, or has in his possession with intent to sell or ship for the purpose of selling to 
any person within the State at any time any prairie chickens, pinnated grouse, sharp 
tailed grouse, ruffed grouse, woodcock or deer, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

FISH.— Revised Codes of 1899.— Sec. 7679 [as amended 1901]. Every person who either 
(1) takes, catches, kills or destroys any fish of any kind in any manner other than by 
angling with hook and line, or (2) between the 1st day of January and the following 
1st day of May in each year, takes in any of the public waters of this State any pike, pick- 
erel, perch, croppie, trout, buffalo, bass, or muskalonge for any purpose other than for 
propagating or breeding the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

FISHING NEAR DAM AND THROUGH ICE; LAWFUL LIMIT.-Sec. 7680. It 
shall be unlawful for any person to take with hook or line or in any other manner 
whatever any fish at any time at any of the mill dams, mill races, or any of the fish- 
ways, sluices or aprons in any of the waters of this State, or within 500 feet measured 
from the same up stream, or to cut open the ice and remove any fish from the waters 
through the opening thus made * * * and in no event shall the number of fish taken, 
caught or killed by any one person exceed 25 fish in any one day. 

EXPORT. — Sec. 7683. Every person who within this State ships or receives for ship- 
ment beyond the limits of this State any of the game birds or animals mentioned in Sec. 
7677, or any of the fish mentioned in Sec. 7679, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [The game and 
fish species are those named in the act of 1899 here quoted.] 




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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— SOUTH DAKOTA. 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 

LARGE GAME.— Act of 1901.— Sec. 1 [as amended 1903]. Any person who shall kill 
any buflfalo, elk, deer or mountain sheep at any time before the 15th of November or at 
any time after the 15th of December is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

[ANTELOPE are protected to 1911.] 

SALE, EXPORT.- Sec. 8. Any person who shall sell or offer for sale within the State 
of South Dakota, at any time, any carcass or parts of a carcass or carcasses of any of the 
game animals named in this act, except as hereinafter provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful at any time to send, ship, carry or transport out of this 
State any carcass or parts of a carcass or carcasses of any game animals named in this 
act, except as hereinafter provided. [See Sec. 13.] 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.— Sec. 10. Any person not a bona fide resident of the 
State of South Dakota, who shall pursue, hunt or kill any of the game animals named in 
this act, at any time, without first having obtained a license therefor, is guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. Such license shall be procured of the County Treasurer of the county in which 
such non-resident desires to hunt, for which license the sum of J25 shall be paid. 
Such license shall only be valid during the calendar year in which the same is issued, and 
shall not be issued before the 1st day of November of that year. Under such license 
no privileges are granted beyond the boundaries of the county in which the same issued. 
[See hunter's license, on next page.] 

NON-RESIDENT MUST HA\E A GUIDE.— Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any 
nonresident of the State of South Dakota to pursue, hunt or kill any of the game animals 
named in this act, except when accompanied by a qualified guide. A qualified guide is 
one that at the time is a deputy game warden of the county. Deputy game wardens are 
prohibited from acting as guides for any person not possessing a license permitting such 
person to hunt. 

LAWFUL NUMBER; SALE.— Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person, in any one 
year, to kill more than one elk, one buffalo, three deer, four antelope and one mountain 
sheep. Any person having lawfully killed any of the said animals is entitled to the use 
and the possession of the whole of such animal so killed; but the barter or sale of the 
carcass or any part thereof of such animal or animals so killed is hereby prohibited: Pro- 
vided, That the skins, heads and antlers of animals lawfully killed may be sold. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 13. Every person, who may wish to transport beyond the limits of this 
State any carcass or carcasses, heads, antlers, scalps or skins of any of the game animals 
named in this act, shall first procure from a justive of the peace a certificate to the effect 
that such carcass or carcasses, head, heads, antlers or skins were taken from animals law- 
fully killed. For such certificate a fee of 25 cents may be charged by the justice. The 
giving of a false certificate is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor. Such certificate 
shall become void after five days from the date thereof. 

LICENSE TO BE SHOWN; GUNS IN GAME COUNTRY.-Sec. 14. It shall be 
the duty of all persons holding licenses to produce the same, when demanded by any 
game warden, deputy game warden, sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable. Any person 
found carrying a gun or other sportsmen's equipment or pursuing any game animals named 
herein, where any of the game animals named herein might reasonably be expected to be 
found, shall be deemed to be hunting, and such facts shall be prima facie evidence 
thereof. The game warden or any of his deputies are hereby authorized to make, within 
his or their county, reasonable examination of any tent, wagon or other place where 
hunters might conceal game, hunters* equipment, where reasonable suspicion exists that 
the game law is being violated. 

RESIDENT LICENSE.— Sec. 15. It shall be unlawful for any person, resident of 
this State, to pursue, hunt or kill any of the game animals named herein, without first 
having secured a hunter's license. Such license shall be procured from the County 
Treasurer of the county in which such person desires to pursue, hunt and kill such 
animals upon payment of $1. 

For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3, 

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DOGS. — Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to use dogs for the 
purpose of running or coursing any of the animals named herein. 

OTHER GAME.— Act approved March 6, 1S99.— Sec. 1. (1) Every person who kills any 
prairie chicken, pinnated grouse, sharp tailed grouse, ruffled grouse, woodcock or quail, 
between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of September following, or any song bird 
or insect eating bird, at any time, excepting crows, blackbirds and sparrows; or 

(2) Kills any wild duck, wild goose, brant or wild crane, between the 1st day of May 
and the 1st day of September following, or kills any plover or curlew between the 15th 
day of May and the 1st day of September following'; or 

(3) At any time kills any wild duck, goose or brant with any swivel gun or other gun, 
except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder, or in hunting such birds makes use 
of any artificial light or battery; or 

(4) Uses or employs any trap, snare, net or bird line, or medicated, drugged or 
poisoned grain or food to capture or kill any of the birds mentioned in Sub-Divisions 1, 
2 or 3 of this section; or 

(5) Wantonly destroys any nest of eggs or any of the birds mentioned in Sub-Divisions 
1, 2 or 3 of this section; or 

(6) Shoots, kills, traps or takes any beaver or otter at any time prior to the 15th day 
of January A.D. 1911; or 

(7) Knowingly hunts in any way, upon the enclosed, occupied or cultivated lands of 
another without the consent of the owner or tenant; or 

(8) Shoots or kills in one day more than fifteen of the game birds mentioned in Sub- 
Divisions 1, 2 or 3 of this section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

SHIPMENT, EXPORT— Sec. 3 [as amended 1903]. It shall be unlawful for any 
person, railroad company, express company, or other common carrier, at any time to 
send out of this State, or to have in his or their possession for that purpose any game 
in this article. It shall also be unlawful for any such person, railroad company, ex- 
press company or other common carrier at any time to send from one town in this State 
to any other town either in or out of this State, or to have in his or their possession for 
that purpose at any one time more than fifteen of any of the birds mentioned in sub- 
divisions one and two. Nothing in this section shall prevent any person from taking 
game in quantity not to exceed fifteen birds mentioned in subdivision one and two, 
either during the open season or within three days thereafter either out of the State or 
from one town to another within the State when the same shall be shipped in open view, 
tagged and plainly labeled with the name of the owner thereof, and accompanied by him, 
the same to be used for food only and not for commercial purposes. 

HUNTERS' LICENSE.-Sec. 14. It shall be unlawful for any person not a bona fide 
resident and citizen of "this State to pursue, hunt or kill within this State, any game bird 
or animal intended to be protected by the laws of this State, at any time, without first 
procuring a hunter's license therefor from the county treasurer. Any person applying 
for hunter's license shall state in writing over his own signature, his name and place 
of residence, and shall pay to the county treasurer therefor the sum of ten dollars. [This 
applies to bird shooting license. By Sec. 10, Act of 1901, above, the license fee for hunt- 
ing large game is made $25.] 

FISH.— Revised Code.— Sec. 3100. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or take, 
in any of the permanent waters of this State any trout, or food fish, at any time, by 
the use of any device whatever, except by hook and line: Provided, That it shall be 
lawful to take or kill with a spear at any time, any suckers or buffalo fish. Sec. 3103. 
It shall be unlawful to kill, take or have in possession any trout, bass, shad croppies, 
or pike, taken or killed in any of the waters of this State during the months of 
November, December, January, February, March and April, or either of said months, in 
any year. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale at any time, any trout, bass, 
shad croppies, pike or pickerel, taken or killed in any of the waters of this State, or 
to ship or transport them out of the State. It shall be unlawful to kill or destroy, or 
have in possession for any purpose whatsoever, except for cultivation or dissemination 
at any time, any trout, bass, shad croppies, pike, pickerel, less than six inches in length. 

For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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SOUTH DAKOTA. 

LARGE GAME.— Act of 1901.— Sec. 1 [as amended 1903]. Any person who shall kill 
any buffalo, elk, deer or mountain sheep at any time before the 15th of November or at 
any time after the 15th of December is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

[ANTELOPE are protected to 1911.] 

SALE, EXPORT.— Sec. 8. Any person who shall sell or offer for sale within the State 
of South Dakota, at any time, any carcass or parts of a carcass or carcasses of any of the 
game animals named in this act, except as hereinafter provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful at any time to send, ship, carry or transport out of this 
State any carcass or parts of a carcass or carcasses of any game animals named in this 
act, except as hereinafter provided. [See Sec. 13.] 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.— Sec. 10. Any person not a bona fide resident of the 
State of South Dakota, who shall pursue, hunt or kill any of the game animals named in 
this act, at any time, without first having obtained a license therefor, is guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. Such license shall be procured of the County Treasurer of the county in which 
such non-resident desires to hunt, for which license the sum of J25 shall be paid. 
Such license shall only be valid during the calendar year in which the same is issued, and 
shall not be issued before the 1st day of November of that year. Under such license 
no privileges are granted beyond the boundaries of the county in which the same issued. 
[See hunter's license, on next page.] 

NON-RESIDENT MUST HAVE A GUIDE.— Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any 
non-resident of the State of South Dakota to pursue, hunt or kill any of the game animals 
named in this act, except when accompanied by a qualified guide. A qualified guide is 
one that at the time is a deputy game warden of the county. Deputy game wardens are 
prohibited from acting as guides for any person not possessing a license permitting such 
person to hunt. 

LAWFUL NUMBER; SALE.— Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person, in any one 
year, to kill more than one elk, one buffalo, three deer, four antelope and one mountain 
sheep. Any person having lawfully killed any of the said animals is entitled to the use 
and the possession of the whole of such animal so killed; but the barter or sale of the 
carcass or any part thereof of such animal or animals so killed is hereby prohibited: Pro- 
vided, That the skins, heads and antlers of animals lawfully killed may be sold. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 13. Every person, who may wish to transport beyond the limits of this 
State any carcass or carcasses, heads, antlers, scalps or skins of any of the game animals 
named in this act, shall first procure from a justive of the peace a certificate to the effect 
that such carcass or carcasses, head, heads, antlers or skins were taken from animals law- 
fully killed. For such certificate a fee of 25 cents may be charged by the justice. The 
giving of a false certificate is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor. Such certificate 
shall become void after five days from the date thereof. 

LICENSE TO BE SHOWN; GUNS IN GAME COUNTRY.— Sec. 14. It shall be 
the duty of all persons holding licenses to produce the same, when demanded by any 
game warden, deputy game warden, sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable. Any person 
found carrying a gun or other sportsmen's equipment or pursuing any game animals named 
herein, where any of the game animals named herein might reasonably be expected to be 
found, shall be deemed to be hunting, and such facts shall be prima facie evidence 
thereof. The game warden or any of his deputies are hereby authorized to make, within 
his or their county, rea.sonable examination of any tent, wagon or other place where 
hunters might conceal game, hunters' equipment, where reasonable suspicion exists that 
the game law is being violated. 

RESIDENT LICENSE.— Sec. 15. It shall be unlawful for any person, resident of 
this State, to pursue, hunt or kill any of the game animals named herein, without first 
having secured a hunter's license. Such license shall be procured from the County 
Treasurer of the county in which such person desires to pursue, hunt and kill such 
animals upon payment of $1. 

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DOGS.— Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to use dogs for the 
purpose of running or coursing any of the animals named herein. 

OTHER GAME.— Act approved March 6, 1S99.— Sec. 1. (1) Every person who kills any 
prairie chicken, pinnated grouse, sharp tailed grouse, ruffled grouse, woodcock or quail, 
between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of September following, or any song bird 
or insect eating bird, at any time, excepting crows, blackbirds and sparrows; or 

(2) Kills any wild duck, wild goose, brant or wild crane, between the 1st day of May 
and the 1st day of September following, or kills any plover or curlew between the 15th 
day of May and the 1st day of September following; or 

(3) At any time kills any wild duck, goose or brant with any swivel gun or other gun, 
except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder, or in hunting such birds makes use 
of any artificial light or battery; or 

(4) Uses or employs any trap, snare, net or bird line, or medicated, drugged or 
poisoned grain or food to capture or kill any of the birds mentioned in Sub-Divisions 1, 
2 or 3 of this section; or 

(5) Wantonly destroys any nest of eggs or any of the birds mentioned in Sub-Divisions 
1, 2 or 3 of this section; or 

(6) Shoots, kills, traps or takes any beaver or otter at any time prior to the 15th day 
of January A.D. 1911; or 

(7) Knowingly hunts in any way, upon the enclosed, occupied or cultivated lands of 
another without the consent of the owner or tenant; or 

(8) Shoots or kills in one day more than fifteen of the game birds mentioned in Sub- 
Divisions 1, 2 or 3 of this section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

SHIPMENT, EXPORT-Sec. 3 [as amended 1903]. It shall be unlawful for any 
person, railroad company, e-xpress company, or other common carrier, at any time to 
send out of this State, or to have in his or their possession for that purpose any game 
in this article. It shall also be imlawful for any such person, railroad company, ex- 
press company or other common carrier at any time to send from one town in this State 
to any other town either in or out of this State, or to have in his or their possession for 
that purpose at any one time more than fifteen of any of the birds mentioned in sub- 
divisions one and two. Nothing in this section shall prevent any person from taking 
game in quantity not to exceed fifteen birds mentioned in subdivision one and two, 
either during the open season or within three days thereafter either out of the State or 
from one town to another within the State when the same shall be shipped in open view, 
tagged and plainly labeled with the name of the owner thereof, and accompanied by him, 
the same to be used for food only and not for commercial purposes. 

HUNTERS' LICENSE.— Sec. 14. It shall be unlawful for any person not a bona fide 
resident and citizen of "this State to pursue, hunt or kill within this State, any game bird 
or animal intended to be protected by the laws of this State, at any time, without first 
procuring a hunter's license therefor from the county treasurer. Any person applying 
for hunter's license shall state in writing over his own signature, his name and place 
of residence, and shall pay to the county treasurer therefor the sum of ten dollars. [This 
applies to bird shooting license. By Sec. 10, Act of 1901, above, the license fee for hunt- 
ing large game is made $25.] 

FISH.— Revised Code.— Sec. 3100. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or take, 
in any of the permanent waters of this State any trout, or food fish, at any time, by 
the use of any device whatever, except by hook and line: Provided, That it shall be 
lawful to take or kill with a spear at any time, any suckers or buffalo fish. Sec. 3103. 
It shall be tinlawful to kill, take or have in possession any trout, bass, shad croppies, 
or pike, taken or killed in any of the waters of this State during the months of 
November, December, January, February, March and April, or either of said months, in 
any year. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale at any time, any trout, bass, 
shad croppies, pike or pickerel, taken or killed in any of the waters of this State, or 
to ship or transport them out of the State. It shall be unlawful to kill or destroy, or 
have in possession for any purpose whatsoever, except for cultivation or dissemination 
at any time, any trout, bass, shad croppies, pike, pickerel, less than six inches in length. 

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inspection upon demand, and shall have informed, by letter or otherwise, the com- 
missioner who issued the license as to the number and kinds of wild fowl or birds which 
he intends to carry from the State. Sec. 9. The fish and game commissioners and the 
detectives in their employ shall have the right, after demand and refusal or failure to 
exhibit such license, to arrest without warrant any non-resident person or persons 
found hunting, pursuing or killing any wild animal, wild fowl or bird, and for the 
purpose of this arrest any person who shall refuse to state his name and place of 
residence on demand of such officer shall be deemed a non-resident. Sec. 10. The fee 
for the license provided for in the preceding sections of this act shall be ten dollars. 

FISHING.— Act March 20, 1901.— Sec. 50. If any person shall take, kill or fish for 
salmon, brook or speckled trout, aureolus or golden trout, lake trout, land-locked or fresh- 
water salmon, bass, pike, pike-perch, white perch, pickerel, shad, shad-waiters, white fish or 
blue fins, in any of the fresh waters of this State, in any other manner or with any other 
device than the ordinary way of angling with a single hook and line, with bait, artificial 
fiies or spoon, he shall be fined. Sec. 51. If any person shall take or kill any fish in any 
of the waters of this State by the use of any poisonous or deleterious or explosive sub- 
stances he shall be fined. Sec. 52. If any person shall take or kill, in any of the fresh 
waters of this State, any kind of fish with seine, weir, gill net or fyke net, he shall be 
fined. But any person may take shiners for bait, with a seine, from the waters of this 
State if such person shall procure and pay for the services of some person designated by 
any of the Fish and Game Commissioners to accompany him and assist him in such 
pursuit. Sec. 53. If any person shall use or have in use, except in tide waters within 
this State, more than ten lines with one single hook on each line when fishing through 
the ice, he shall be fined. 

FISHING AS A BUSINESS.— Sec. 54. If any person shall, for the whole or any part 
of the time, engage in the business or occupation of fishing on any of the streams or 
ponds of this State, for brook or speckled trout, or in the lakes thereof for land-locked 
salmon or lake trout, or shall for the whole or any part of the time engage in the busi- 
ness or occupation of fishing for such fish for any other person, for gain or hire, he 
shall for every such ofifense be fined. 

YOUNG SALMON.— Sec. 55. No person shall take from any of the waters of this 
State any young salmon known as parr smolt, or grilse, at any time. 

LAKE TROUT, LAND-LOCKED SALMON, WHITEFISH, SHAD.-Sec. 56. No 
person shall take any lake trout, land-locked salmon, white fish, shad or blue fins between 
the 15th day of September in any year and the 1st day of January following, except 
that it shall be unlawful to take from the waters of Lakes Winnipesaukee and Winnis- 
quam any lake trout or landlocked salmon between the 15th day of June in any year 
and the 1st day of January next following. 

TROUT.— Sec. 57. No person shall take any brook or speckled trout between the 31st 
day of July in any year and the 1st day of April next following, except that brook or 
ipeckled trout may be taken in the usual manner with single hook and line in the waters 
of Coos, Grafton and Carroll counties during the month August, but not during the 
month of April. And except that it shall be lawful to take trout from the waters of Lake 
Sunapee during the month of August, and within the lakes and ponds of Coos, Grafton 
and Carroll counties during the first fourteen days of September. 

PIKE-PERCH, WHITE PERCH, BLACK BASS.— Sec. 59. If any person shall take 
or kill any pike perch or white perch, in any of the waters of this State, except tide 
waters, during the months of May and June in any year, or black bass during the month 
of May, he shall be fined. 

PLANTING PICKEREL, ETC.— Sec. 60. If any person shall put pickerel, pike, 
black bass, carp or the roe, spawn or fry thereof into any public waters containing trout, 
«nd free from pike, pickerel, bass or carp, he shall be fined. 

MUSKELLUNGE. PICKEREL, PIKE, GRAYLIN.G.-Sec. 61. If any person shall 
takf any muskellunge, pickerel, pike or grayling during the months of April and May 
he shall be fined. 

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INTRODUCED FlsH.— Sec. 62. If any person shall take any variety of fish which have 
been introduced by the Fish and Game Commissioners within five years from their 
introduction he shall be fined. 

TROUT LIMIT.— Sec. 68. If any person shall take or kill more than 10 pounds of 
brook or speckled trout in any one calendar day he shall be fined. 

ICE FISHING.— Sec. 69. If any person shall take, or have in his possession, any brook 
or speckled trout, or any land-locked salmon taken through the ice (except land-locked 
salmon, when they inhabit the same waters as lake trout), he shall be fined. 

SIZES OF FISH.— Sec. 70. If any person shall take, kill or have in possession any brook 
trout at any tjme of a length less than 5 inches, or any black bass of a length less than 
8 inches, or any land-locked salmon, aureolus or golden trout or pickerel of a length 
less than 12 inches, he shall be fined. 

PRIVATE WATERS.— Sec. 74. Nothing in this act shall prohibit the owners of 
private waters from taking fish from such waters for purposes of propagation, dissemina- 
tion or science at such times and in such manner as may be most convenient, but they 
shall not be taken, used or sold for purposes of food during the time when such capture 
is prohibited by law. 

WHAT ARE PUBLIC WATERS.— Sec. 75. All natural ponds and lakes containing 
more than twenty acres shall be deemed public waters. 

LAKE SUNAPEE.— [Chap. 71, Laws 1905, forbids fishing in Lake Sunapee with more 
than two lines. Chap. 114, Laws 1905, forbids taking beach bass in Lake Sunapee, except 
in May and June (except with Hy after June 15); and permits taking pickerel at any 
time in Lake Sunapee with hook and line.] 

VERMONT. 
Chapter 189 Vermont Statutes as Amended 1904. 

"If an act is prohibited between two dates, the frohibition shall include the first but not 
the last date." 

TROUT, LAND-LOCKED SALMON, SALMON TROUT, LONGE.— Sec. 4577. If a 
person takes or catches brook trout, golden trout, rainbow trout, steelhead trout, lake 
trout, land-locked salmon or longe in any brook or stream between the 1st day of August 
and the 1st day of May following, or in any of the ponds or lakes between the 1st day of 
September and the 1st day of May following, he shall be fined. [Does not apply to 
artificially raised fish.] 

FISH, SIZES.— Sec. 4578. If a person takes a brook trout, rainbow trout, brown trout 
or Loch Leven trout less than six inches in length, or a black bass less than ten inches 
in length, or a land-locked salmon, or salmon trout, or steel-head trout less than twelve 
inches in length, and does not immediately return the same, with the least possible 
injury, to the waters from which it was taken or caught, he shall be fined. 

BASS, PIKE, PERCH, MUSCALLONGE.— Sec. 4579. If a person between the 1st 
day of January and the 15th day of June takes or catches, or has in possession, a black 
bass, he shall be fined. If a person between the 1st day of November and the 1st day 
of May takes or catches a wall-eyed pike or pike-perch or pickerel in any waters in this 
State, except Lake Champlain, he shall be fined. If any person between the 15th day of 
April and the 15th day of June takes or catches a white perch or muskallonge in any 
waters of this State, except Lake Champlain, he shall be fined. 

ANGLING ONLY.— Sec. 4562. Angling is defined to mean taking fish with hook and 
line or rod held in hand, and does not include set lines. Taking or hooking fish by 
what is called grappling shall not be termed angling under this provision. Sec. 45S3. If 
a person takes a brook trout, golden trout, rainbow trout, steel-head trout, lake trout, 
land-lock salmon, longe, black bass, wall-eyed pike, pike-perch, pickerel or muskallonge 
in any of the waters of this State, except by angling, or fishing through the ice with not 
more than fifteen tended lines, he shall be fined. 

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AMOUNT OF FISH.— Chap. 117, Laws 1904.-Sec. 5. If any person takes more than 
ten pounds of brook trout, golden trout, rainbow trout, steel-head trout, or land-lock 
salmon in one day, or more than twenty-five pounds of lake trout or longe, he shall be 
fined $5 for each pound so taken in excess of these amounts: Provided, however. That 
the taking of one fish additional, havini; less than the nuiiihcr of pounds herein specified 
when taken, shall not be regarded as a violation uf the law. 

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brook trout, golden (rout, steel-head Irout. lake t 
bass, he shall be lined. 

ICK-l'lSlllNC.- Sec. IGS}. If a p<rs..ii lishes llnough the ice in any of the waters of 
this State inhabited by trout, salmon tioul, longe or land-locked salmon, he shall be fined. 

SHOOTING PICKEREL OR 1MKE.~-Sec. 45SC. Nothing in this chapter shall be con- 
strued to prohibit the shooting of pickerel or pike (not wall-eyed pike) between sunrise 
and sundown, with a gun held to shoulder, between the 15th day of March and the 1st 
day of May. 

NETTING MINNOWS.— Sec. 4593. The provisions [against nets] shall not apply to 
the use of nets not more than 75 feet in length, for taking minnows in waters not inhabited 
by trout. 

LAKE CIL-\MPL.\IN.- .\et Dee. IL'. ]!H1'J. Sec. 1. .Ml existing statutes restricting the 
fishing with hook and line in Lake Chamiilain at any season of the year are hereby 
repealed. 

BLACK BASS.— Chap. r22. Laws iy04.-Sec. 1. If a person between the 1st day of 
January and the 15th day of June lakes a black bass in any of the waters of this State, 
or has in possession a black bass so taken he shall be fined. Sec. 2. If any person takes 
more than twenty-four black bass in any one day he shall be fined; and if two or more 
persons angling from the same boat take more than thirty-six black bass in any one day 
they shall be fined. 

RABBIT, HARE, BEAVER.— Sec. 4(nO. If a person kills a rabbit or hare between the 
1st day of May and the 1st day of September, he shall be lined. Sec. 4G11. If a person 
kills a beaver he shall be fined. 

GAME BIRDS.— Chap. 107, Laws 1902.— Sec. AGVl. No person shall take or kill in this 
State upland plover between the 1st day of December and the 15th day of August; or 
quail, wild duck, English snipe, wild goose or plover other than upland plover between 
the 1st day of January and the 1st day of September, or any ruifed grouse (commonly 
called partridge) or woodcock between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of Sep- 
tember; nor shall a person at any time within this State take or destroy or have in his 
possession the eggs of any of the birds named in this section; nor shall any person take 
any birds named in this section by means of a snare, net or trap; nor shall any person 
kill more than five birds of any kind named in this section in one day except wild duck, or 
have in his possession any birds of the kind named killed contrary to the provisions of 
this section; nor shall any person kill more than twenty wild ducks in one day, or have 
in his possession any ducks killed contrary to the provisions of this section; nor shall 
any person kill more than fifteen rulled grouse (commonly called partridge) from the 
31st day of August in any year until the 1st day of January following. 

PHEASANTS, EUROPEAN PARTRIDGE.— Chap. 124, Laws 1904.— Sec. 2. Pheasant 
or European partridge shall not be taken before October 1st, A. D., 1909. 

KILLING GAME FOR SALE.— Sec. 4613. No person shall at any time take, kill, 
purchase or receive, or cause to be taken, killed, purchased or received any of the birds 
specified in the preceding section for the purpose of sale; nor shall any person at any 
time sell or dispose of the same for traffic or gain. 

DEER.— Chapt. 127, Laws 1904.-^Sec. 1. The open season for hunting deer shall be the 
last week in October, containing six working days, Sundays excepted. 

DEER DOGS.— Chap. 04, Laws 189G.— Sec. 8 [added 1898]. Dogs of the breed com- 
monly used for hunting deer, moose or caribou, and dogs of other varieties that are 

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known to follow deer, moose or caribou, shall not be permitted by the owner or person 
harboring the same to run at large in the forests inhabited by deer, moose or caribou. [If 
any dog is found hunting deer, moose or caribou, it shall be prima facie evidence that 
it was permitted to run, and on conviction the owner or keeper shall be fined $5 for first 
ofTense, $10 for second, $15 for each subsequent offense; and if the dog kills a deer the 
owner shall pay $50 to $100.] 

DEER, MOOSE, CARIBOU.— Chap. 94, Laws 1896.— Sec. 1. No person, except in the 
open season as hereinafter provided, shall pursue, take or kill a wild deer. No person 
shall at any time kill any moose or caribou. Sec 2. Deer having horns may be hunted and 
taken during the last [week in October; see Chap. 127, Laws 1904, above]; but no person 
shall hunt, kill, destroy or capture deer (a) With a dog or dog kind, (b) By the. aid or 
use of a jack or artificial light, (c) By the method known as crusting, id) While the 
deer are yarded, or (c) By the use or assistance of any snare, trap, or salt licl<. Sec. 3. 
No person during the open season of any year shall take, kill, destroy or have in 
possession more than one deer. Sec. 4. Deer killed or taken in \'ermont shall not be 
transported by any person or corporation, except that the carcass or parts thereof of 
one deer, lawfully killed in the State, may be transported in the open season and for 
ten days thereafter when open to view, tagged and plainly labeled with the name of the 
owner thereof, and accompanied by him. But this section shall not apply to the head, 
feet or pelt of deer severed from the body. Sec. 7. Dogs shall not be permitted to run 
at large in the forest where deer, moose or caribou inhabit. Any person may lawfully 
kill any dog found hunting moose, deer or caribou, or that is kept for this purpose. 

NON-RESIDENT HUNTING DEER.— Chap. 128, Laws 1904.— Sec. 1. Persons not 
bona fide residents of this State shall not kill a deer at any time without first having 
procured a license therefor, and may then kill but one deer with horns not less than 
three inches long. Such license shall be issued by the fish and game commissioners upon 
application in writing and the payment of $15. Sec. 4. The holder of a non-resident 
license shall be entitled to have transported within or without the State the carcass or 
part thereof by any transportation company by presenting to the agent of such trans- 
portation company his license with the coupon attached. This shall not apply to the 
head, feet or pelt of a deer severed from the body. 

GAME, EXPORT.— Chap. 106, Laws 1902.— Sec. 1. All persons living without the State 
are hereby restricted from killing or having in their possession at any time any game 
bird of which there is a close season, except for the consumption as food within the 
State and under such restrictions as those of the people residing in the State. 

GRAY SQUIRRELS.— Sec. 2. No more than five gray squirrels shall be taken by any 
one person in a single day, and then only for consumption as food within this State. 

WILDFOWL AT NIGHT.— Chap. lOP, Laws 1898.— Sec. 1. No person shall at any 
time hunt or shoot any wild duck or wild goose while on their feeding grounds, be- 
tween the hour of seven in the evening of one day and the hour of five in the morning 
of the following day. 

OTHER BIRDS— Sec. 4614. If a person shoots, or otherwise intentionally wounds, en- 
traps, ensnarco or captures a wild or undomesticated bird, except quail, woodcock, wild 
duck, Wilson's or English snipe, ruffed grouse, wild goose, plover, pheasant, English 
partridge, merganser, blue heron, bittern, loon, English sparrow, crow blackbird, crow, 
jay, or birds of prey, or if a person destroys the nest or eggs of any wild or undomes- 
ticated birds, except the nest or eggs of a merganser, blue heron, bittern, loon, English 
sparrow, crow blackbird, crow, jay and birds of prey, he shall be fined. 

NETS, SNARES, HUNTING WITH LIGHTS.— Cnap. 95, Laws 389'^.— Sec. 1. No 
game for which there is a close season in this State shall be netted or snared. Sec. 2. 
If a person shoots or hunts wild duck with the aid of a torch, jack or articificial ligh* of 
any kind, he shall be fined 

SUNDAY.— Chap. 132, Laws 1904.— A person who hunts, shoots or pursues, takes or 
kills wild game or other birds or animals, or discharges firearms, except in the just 
defense of person or property, or in the performance of military or police duty, on 
Sunday, shall be fined. 

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NEW JERSEY. 
Act Approved April 14, 1903, and Amended 1905. 

LAWFUL METHODS.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful to kill any game bird or game 
animal whatsoever, excepting in the manner usually known as hunting with a gun, the 
gun being such as may be held at arm's length and fired from the shoulder, without 
rests, and at such times as may be permitted in this act. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 3. No person shall kill or catch, or have in possession, 
living or dead, any wild bird, other than a game bird, or purchase, offer or expose for 
sale any such wild bird after it has been killed or caught; and no part of the plumage, 
skin or body of any bird protected by this section shall be sold or had in possession for 
sale; for the purpose of this section, the following shall be considered game birds: The 
anatidae, commonly known as swans, geese, brant and river and sea ducks; the rallidae, 
commonly known as rails, gallinules, coots and mud-hens; the limicolae, commonly 
known as shore birds, surf snipe or bay snipe, among them being yellow legs, plovers, 
willets, sand pipers, dowitchers or robin snipe, brown backs, curlews, turn-stones or 
calico backs, godwits or marlin, tattlers and woodcock; the gallinse, commonly known as 
wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges and quails; and the species 
of icteridoe, commonly known as reed birds; the English or European house sparrow 
(Passer domesticus), blackbirds, crows. Cooper's hawk, goshawk, sharp-skinned hawk, 
duck hawk and great horned owl are, however, not included among the birds pro- 
tected by this section. 

NEST.— Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to rob the nests or take or destroy the eggs of any 
wild bird whatsoever, except the nests or eggs of the English sparrow. 

UNLAWFUL KILLING.— Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful to capture any of the game 
birds or other animals enumerated in this act, except during the seasons and at the 
times and in the manner as in this act provided. 

WILDFOWL.— Sec. 6 [as amended 1905]. It shall be unlawful for any person hunting 
or gunning after geese, duck, swans or brant or other water wild fowl, to place the 
boat, sink-box or other vessel or construction in which such person may lie in wait 
to kill said geese, duck, swan, brant or other water wild fowl, at a distance of more 
than one hundred feet from ice, marsh or meadow, bar or bank, or heaped seaweed 
not covered with water; and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, with intent 
to capture or kill geese, duck, swan, brant or other water wild fowl, to hunt after or 
pursue the same in any manner except between one hour before sunrise and until one 
hour after sunset. Sec. 7 [as amended 1905]. it shall be unlawful for any person to 
pursue any geese, duck, swan, brant or any kind of water wild fowl whatsoever, or to 
shoot, or to shoot at, or kill, or wound the same from any boat or vessel propelled by 
any means other than by oars or paddles, or from any boat, vessel or other structure 
anchored or staked upon the waters of any of the bays, sounds, coves, ponds, rivers, 
creeks or streams of the State at a greater distance than one hundred feet from ice, 
marsh or meadow, bar or bank, or heaped seaweed not covered with water. Sec. 8. It 
shall be unlawful to capture any goose, duck, swan, brant or other water wild fowl, 
excepting only from the 1st day of September to the 30th day of April, both dates 
inclusive. 

SHORE BIRDS. SNIPE.— Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful to capture any yellow legs, 
plovers, willets, sand pipers, dowitchers or robin snipe, brown backs, curlews, turn-stones 
or calico backs, godwits or marlin, and tattlers, or any other birds commonly known as 
shore birds, surf snipe, or bay snipe, excepting only from the 1st day of May to the 
31st day of December, both dates inclusive; and it shall be unlawful to capture any 
Wilson or English snipe (sometimes called bog snipe or jack snipe), excepting only 
during the months of March, April, September, October, November and Decembpr. 

REED BIRD.— Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful to capture any reed bird, excepting only 
from the 1st day of September to the 31st day of December, both dates inclusive. 

UPLAND PLOVER.— Sec. 11.— It shall be unlawful to capture any upland plover, 
excepting during the months of August and September. 

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MARSH HEN, RAIL BIRD.— Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful to capture any marsh hen 
(commonly known as mud-hen) or rail bird, excepting only from the 1st day of Sep- 
tember to the 31st day of December, both dates inclusive; and it shall be unlawful to 
capture, kill or have in possession in any one day, from the 1st day of September to the 
31st day of December, both dates inclusive, more than thirty marsh hens. 

GROUSE, QUAIL, PHEASANT, WILD TURKEY.-Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful to 
capture any ruflfed grouse (commonly known as partridge), quail, English or ring-necked 
pheasant, prairie chicken or any wild turkey, excepting only between the 10th day of 
November and the 31st day of December, both dates inclusive. [Pheasants may be 
killed on preserves October 1st to December 31st.] 

WOODCOCK.— Sec. 14. It shall be unlawful to capture any woodcock, excepting dur- 
ing the months of July, October, November and December. 

[FLICKER, highholder, yellow-bellied woodpecker, sap sucker are protected at all 
times under Sec. 3, as not game birds.] 

RABBIT, SQUIRREL, DEER.— Sec. 15. It shall be unlawful to capture any hare 
(commonly known as rabbit), or any gray, black or fox squirrel, excepting only from the 
10th day of November to the 31st day of December, both dates inclusive, of each year 
(except as provided in Section 2 hereof as to rabbits). [Sec. 2 provides that on ptrmit 
from the Commissioners, landowners may trap rabbits injuring crops.] Sec. 16. It shall 
be unlawful for two years after the passage of this act to take, kill or to have in posses- 
sion, any wild deer, be the same buck, doe or fawn; and thereafter it shall be unlawful 
to kill any wild deer, be the same buck, doe or fawn, excepting only on every Wednes- 
day in the month of November: Provided, however. That this section shall not be con- 
strued to interfere with owners of deer preserves at present established hunting or 
killing their deer whenever they see fit, or disposing of them as they may see fit; or 
interfering with deer legally taken in other States and brought into this State properly 
tagged to show where they were taken. 

BEAVER.— Sec. 17. It shall be unlawful to trap, take, capture or kill, or have in 
possession any beaver, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every beaver 
so trapped, taken, captured or killed or had in possession. 

SNARES, TRAPS.— Sec. 18. It shall be unlawful to have in possession, sell or oflFer 
for sale any of the game birds or game animals enumerated in this act, after the same 
has been caught or trapped; or to set any snare, snood, net, trap or device for catching 
or trapping any such game bird or animal. 

[POSSESSION OF GAME is forbidden in the close season named for each species 
except that all sales of dealers in game for a period of fifteen days after the expiration 
of such specified date shall prima facie be deemed lawful.] 

SABBATH.— Sec. 20. It shall be unlawful to hunt with a hound or hounds, or with 
firearms or weapons of any kind, or to carry a gun in the woods or fields or on the 
waters on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday. 

LIVE GAME.— Sec. 21. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent asso- 
ciations or individuals from bringing into this State any birds or other animals for the 
purpose of propagation, or from keeping such animals until a seasonable time for their 
release. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 22. It shall be unlawful to remove or to attempt to remove from this 
State any quail, ruffed grouse, pinnated grouse, woodcock, hare (commonly known as 
rabbit), squirrel, English pheasant or ring-necked pheasant: Provided, however. That this 
section shall not apply to common carriers carrying from beyond the confines of this State 
in unbroken packages to some point beyond the confines of this State, such quail, rufTed 
grouse, pinnated grouse, woodcock, hare, squirrel or pheasant: Provided, however. That 
this section shall not apply to English or ring-necked pheasants killed on preserves. 

SNOW.— Sec. 23. It shall be unlawful to hunt, kill or destroy any partridge, grouse, 
pheasant, quail, woodcock or hare (commonly known as rabbit), while there is snow upon 
the ground in such condition that any such bird or animal may be tracked therein, or 
by tracking any such bird or animal in the snow. 

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DOGS AT LARGE.— Sec. 24. It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee or custodian 
of any dog to permit such dog to run at large in woods or fields inhabited by rabbits 
or game birds, except only between the 1st day of October and the 1st day of February 
following; provided, that at all other times during the year, such dog or dogs may be 
allowed to run when the owner, lessee or custodian is with such dog or dogs; but at no 
time shall any dog be allowed to run rabbits at night; and this act shall in nowise apply 
to fields or woods inhabited by deer. 

Fish. 

ANGLING METHODS.— Sec. 25. It shall be unlawful to take any fish from any of 
the waters of this State by means of any contrivance whatsoever excepting in the man- 
ner commonly known as angling with hand-line or with rod and line: Provided, how- 
ever. That this provision shall not apply to the catching of eels, at any time, by means 
of wicker eel baskets anchored on the bottom of streams and ponds, nor to the taking 
of eels by means of eel weirs from the 15th day of September to the last day of October; 
nor to the taking of suckers, eels, cat-fish or carp with a spear in all streams and in all 
lakes and ponds of less than one hundred acres, from the 20th day of February to tiie 
20th day of April, both dates inclusive, of each year; Provided, also, That it shall be 
unlawful to take minnows and other bait-fish with a seine not over fifty feet in length 
in all ponds and lakes which have an area of over one hundred acres,* and in all other 
waters, with a seine not over thirty feet in length; in every such case, however, all 
trout, pickerel, bass, pike and pike-perch captured therein shall be immediately released 
therefrom uninjured as far as practicable: Provided, further. That it shall be lawful to 
take fish in any manner under the direction of or by permission given by the Board of 
Fish and Game Commissioners for stocking purposes. 

CARP OR TENCH BAIT.— Sec. 26. It shall be unlawful at all times to use the young 
of any species of carp or tench for bait in any of the waters of this State, or to take to 
any of such waters the young of any species of carp or tench for bait or for any other 
purpose. 

BASS, PIKE-PERCH.— Sec. 27. It shall be unlawful to take any black bass, Oswego 
bass, white bass, calico bass, crappie or pike-perch, excepting only from the 20th day of 
May to the last day of November, both dates inclusive. 

PIKE, PICKEREL.— Sec. 28. It shall be unlawful to take any pike or pickerel, except- 
ing only from the 20th of May to the last day of November, and from the 1st day of 
lanuary to the 1st day of February, all dates inclusive. 

TROUT. — Sec. 29. It shall be unlawful to catch any brook trout except only from the 
1st day of April to the 15th day of July, both dates inclusive. 

NIGHT FISHING.— Sec. 30. It shall be unlawful in any manner to take any trout, 
bass, pike-perch, pike or pickerel between 9 o'clock in the evening and daylight of the 
morning following. 

FISH, SIZES.— Sec. 31. It shall be unlawful to kill any black bass, Oswego bass, 
white bass or calico bass measuring less than nine inches, or any pike-perch measuring 
less than twelve inches, or any trout measuring less than six inches, or any pike or 
pickerel measuring less than twelve inches, except for the purpose of stocking, at the 
direction of the Commissioners or upon license from such Board; provided that the 
Esox fasciatus (known as Long Island pickerel, varied pickerel and grass pike) is not 
included among the fish protected by this section. 

SET LINES, LAWFUL TACKLE.— It shall be unlawful to put, place, use or maintain 



*The lakes in New Jersey exceeding a hundred acres each in area, and in which 
accordingly no spearing is permitted, are the following: Mays Landing Pond, Hanover 
Pond, Harrisville Pond, Willow Grove Pond, Pompton Lake, Budds Lake, Denmark 
Pond, Green Pond, Hopatcong Lake, Split Rock Pond, Cedar Pond, Greenwood Lake, 
Long Pond (Andover), Halloway Pond, Cranberry Pond, Culver's Lake, Little Svvarts- 
wood. Long Pond, Losee Pond, Morris Lake, Stanhope Reservoir, VNawayanda Lake 
and Green Lake. 

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in any of the waters of this State inhabited by pickerel, pike, pike-perch, black bass, 
Oswego bass, white bass, calico bass, perch or trout, any set-line or set-lines, or to use 
upon a line for the taking of fish in such waters any contrivance having more than three 
hooks, or more than one burr of three hooks attached .hereto. Sec. 36. It shall be 
unlawful at all times to use, have in possession, or offer or expose for sale, any artificial 
bait with more than three hooks or more than one burr of three hooks attached thereto 
under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offense. 

IMPORTED GAME AND FISH.— Sec. 38. Whenever in this act the possession of 
fish or game, or the flesh of any animal, bird or fish, "or any part thereof, is prohibited, 
reference is had equally to such fish, game or flesh, or any part thereof, coming from 
without the State as to that taken within the State. 

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WATERS.— Sec. 39. The term "waters of this State," for 
the purposes of this act, shall be construed to mean all the fresh waters of this State; 
Provided, That all ponds, lakes and waters created by or under the exclusive control 
of individuals or associations, stocked and maintained at the sole expense of such indi- 
viduals or associations, and not runways for migratory fish, shall be considered private 
waters, and shall be exempt from the provisions of this act as far as such individuals 
and the members of such associations or persons receiving permits from them are 
concerned. 

DELAWARE RIVER.— Act. April 7, 1890.— Sec. 6. That no person shall, by any 
means, catch in the Delaware River any black bass, rock bass or wall-eyed pike, com- 
monly known as Susquehanna salmon, between the 1st day of January and the 30th day 
of May. Sec. 7 [as amended by act March 21, 1895]. That no person shall catch or kill in 
the Delaware River any black bass or wall-eyed pike under nine inches in length, or any 
rock bass under five inches in length. 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.— Act April 22, 1902.— Sec. 1. Every non-resident of this 
State shall be required to take out a license before he shall begin hunting or gunning in 
this State, which license the several county clerks of this State, and each of them, are 
hereby authorized and required to issue upon the payment by the applicant of a license 
fee of $10, and an issuance fee of 50 cents to the county clerk issuing the same. Such 
license shall be a certificate of permission to hunt and gun within the State of New 
Jersey and shall include the name, age and place of residence and business of the appli- 
cant, with his description as nearly as may be, and shall be valid and effective for and 
during the term of one year from the date of the issuance thereof and no longer. Such 
certificate shall authorize the owner thereof to hunt and kill in any part of this State 
during the open seasons of the year therein specified and under the restrictions and for the 
purposes allowed by law, game birds and game quadrupeds found in this State. Said 
certificate shall not be transferable and shall be exposed for examination upon demand 
by any game protector or game warden of this State. Any non-resident of this State who 
shall hunt or gun within this State without having first procured the license or certificate 
above mentioned and paid the license and issuance fees above mentioned, shall be liable 
to a penalty of $25 for each and every offense: Provided, however. That the license afore- 
said shall, without payment of said license fee, be issued to all non-residents who are 
the owners of a freehold estate in any lands in this State, who reside thereon a portion 
of each year, and who pay taxes thereon, and to their sons, who are members of their 
families, upon application to the county clerk of the county in which such lands are 
situate, signed by the applicant, and upon the payment of only the issuance fee above 
provided for; and provided further, That this act shall not apply to hunting or gunning 
on game preserves at present established, or to gunning and hunting for wild water fowl, 
snipe or mud hens. 



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IOWA. 
Chap. IS of the Code as amended 1904. 

FISHING.— Sec. 2540. Between the 1st days of November and March, no one shall take 
any salmon or trout, nor between the 15th day of November and the 15th day of May any 
bass, pike, crappies, pickeral (pickerel), cat-fish or other game fish, nor shall any one 
person take of said fish in any one day more than forty of any or all of said kinds of 
fish, nor shall anyone catch any fish in any stream, which has been stocked with breeding 
trout, one or two years old, within one year from the date of the stocking thereof, if 
notice of such fact is posted where a public road crosses such stream; nor shall any one take 
any fish, except minnows for bait, unless by hook and line; but any person may, between 
the 15th day of May and the 15th day of November, use not more than one trot line in 
streams only, and extending not more than half way across nor have, while fishing through 
the ice, any house, shed or other protection against the weather, or have or use any stove 
or other means for creating artificial heat. The taking or killing of any fish by any means 
within 300 feet of a fishway shall be unlawful. No person shall kill any bass, cat-fish, 
wall-eyed pike or trout less than 6 inches in length. 

MINNOWS FOR BAIT.— Sec. 2541. In taking minnows for bait, a three-eighth inch 
mesh seine not exceeding five yards in length may be used, and if any of the fish 
enumerated in the preceding section shall be taken, they shall at once be restored un- 
harmed to the waters whence taken, and the word "minnows" as used in this chapter does 
not include young bass, pike, crappies, trout, salmon, or fry of any game fish, native or 
otherwise. 

TWO LINES. — Sec. 2542. No person shall use more than two lines, with one hook 
upon each line, in still fishing or otherwise, except that a trot line as above provided, or 
in trolling a spoonhook composed of three hooks fastened together may be used. 

PRIVATE FISHING.— Sec. 2545. Persons who raise or propagate fish upon their own 
premises, or who own premises on which there are waters having no natural inlet or 
outlet through which such waters may become stocked or replenished with fish, are the 
owners of the fish therein and may take them as they see fit, or permit the same to be 
done. 

RIVERS EXCEPTED.— Sec. 2547. Nothing herein contained shall be held to apply 
to fishing in the Mississippi or Missouri rivers, nor to so much of the Des Moines River 
as forms the boundary line between this State and Missouri. 

GAME PROTECTED. — Sec. 2551. No person shall kill any pinnated grouse or prairie 
chicken between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of September next following; 
any woodcock, between the first day of January and the 10th day of July; any ruffed 
grouse or pheasant, wild turkey or quail, between the 15th day of December and the 1st 
day of November; any wild duck, goose or brant, rail, plover, sand piper and marsh or 
beach bird, between the 15th day of April and the 1st of September; or any gray or fox 
squirrel or timber squirrel between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of September. 
Shooting or killing quail on the public highway shall be in violation of law. No person 
shall kill any of the birds mentioned in this section from any artificial ambush of any 
kind or with the aid or use of any sneak boat or sink box or other device used for con- 
cealment in the open water, nor use any artificial light, battery or any other deception, 
contrivance or device whatever with the intent to attract or deceive any of the birds 
mentioned in this chapter, except that decoys may be used in hunting wild geese and 
ducks, but no person shall at any time hunt or shoot from any boat, canoe, contrivance 
or device whatever on any of the waters of this State between sunset and sunrise. 

SALE, NUMBER.— Sec. 2552.— No person shall kill for traffic any pinnated grouse or 
prairie chicken, woodcock, quail, ruffed grouse or pheasant; nor shall any one person 
kill during any one day more than twenty-five of either kind of said named birds or of 
wild turkey, duck, goose or brant, nor shall any one person, firm or corporation have more 
than twenty-five of either kind of said named birds except ducks in possession at any one 
time, unless lawfully received for transportation. 

TRAPPING.— Sec. 2553. It shall be unlawful to kill, trap or ensnare any beaver, mink, 

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otter or muskrat between the first day of April and the first day of November, except for 
protection of private or public property. 

POSSESSION— Sec. 2554. It shall be unlawful to have in possession any of the birds 
or animals named during the period when the killing is prohibited, except during the 
first five days of such prohibited period. 

SHIPPING OUT OF THE STATE.-Sec. 2555. No person shall ship, take or carry out 
of this State any of the birds or animals named; but it shall be lawful for any person to 
ship to any person within this State any game birds named, not to exceed one dozen in 
any one day, during the period when the killing of such birds is not prohibited; but he 
shall first make an affidavit before some person authorized to administer oaths that said 
birds have not been unlawfully killed, bought, sold, or had in possession, are not being 
shipped for sale or profit, giving the name and post-office address of the person to whom 
shipped, and the number of birds to be so shipped. A copy of such affidavit, endorsed 
"a true copy of the original" by the person administering the oath, shall be furnished by 
him to the affiant, who shall deliver the same to the railroad agent or common carrier 
receiving such birds for transportation, and the same shall operate as a release to such 
carrier or agent from any liability in the shipment or carrying of such birds. 

HUNTING UPON CULTIVATED OR ENCLOSED LAND.-Sec. 2560. No person 
shall hunt with dog or gun upon the cultivated or enclosed lands of another without first 
obtaining permission from the owner, occupant, or agent thereof. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 25G1. No person shall take, except specimens for use of 
taxidermists, any whippoorwill, night-hawk, bluebird, finch, thrush, linnet, lark, wren, 
martin, swallow, bobolink, robin, turtle-dove, cat-bird, snowbird, blackbird, or any other 
harmless birds except bluejays and English sparrows, but nothing herein shall be con- 
strued to prevent the removal of nests from buildings, and the keeping of song birds in 
cages as domestic pets. 

DEER, ELK, GOAT.— Chap. 65, Laws 1898.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any per- 
son other than the owner, or person authorized by the owner, to kill or capture any deer, 
elk or goat, except when distrained as provided by law. 

NON-RESIDENTS.— Act of March 22, 1900.— Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any 
person not a bona fide resident of the State of Iowa to pursue, hunt or kill any game 
bird or animal in the State of Iowa at any time without first procuring a license therefor 
from the county auditor of the county in which said game is pursued, hunted or killed. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county auditor of such county to issue a license to any 
person a non-resident of the State of Iowa, whom he shall find to be a careful and prudent 
person, and accustomed to the use of firearms, to pursue, hunt and kill game in the county 
named in such license during the open season, for any term hereafter not exceeding one 
year ending on the 1st day of January next succeeding the issuance of the license, upon the 
payment of the sum of $10 to the county treasurer as a license fee and the sum of 50 
cents to the county auditor for issuing a license, which may be revoked by the county 
auditor at any time for good cause shown. Sec. 3. Any non-resident person who may 
desire such a license shall file an application with the county auditor properly sworn to, 
stating the name, age, occupation, and place of residence of the applicant, and the name 
of the county for which such license is wanted, and pay the fees as provided in Section 2 
of this act. Sec. 4. Any such non-resident who may thus have obtained such a license 
shall be authorized thereby to hunt, pursue, or kill game in the county named therein, but 
not on the inclosed or cultivated lands of another without a permit in writing from the 
owner and only during the open season while such license is in foree, and shall be 
authorized thereby to take from the State not to exceed twenty-five game birds or animals 
of all kinds killed by himself or herself, which shall be carried openly for inspection with 
his or her license. 

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OKLAHOMA. 

DEER, ANTELOPE, BIRDS .-Act Approved March 10, 1899.-Sec. 1. It shall be 
unlawful for any person to kill any deer, buck, doe, fawn, antelope, prairie chicken, 
grouse, quail, wild turkey, wren, martin, swallow, robin, turkey buzzard, plover, dove or 
insectiverous birds, except it shall be lawful to shoot prairie chickens and wild turkeys 
between the 1st day of September and the 1st day of January of the following year, and 
it shall be lawful to shoot quail between the 15th day of October and the 1st day of Feb- 
ruary of the following year, and it shall be lawful to shoot plover and dove between the 
1st day of August and the 31st day of December of each year; provided, it shall be un- 
lawful at any time to kill any wild turkey, quail, dove or prairie chicken, for any 
purpose except for their own private use as food. 

PHEASANTS.— Sec. 2. No person shall kill any Mongolian pheasant or any other 
pheasant until the 1st day of January, 1904, and thereafter only from the 1st day of 
December to the 1st day of January of the following year. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation to 
export to any other Territory or State or country any game or the parts of any game 
mentioned in this act. 

FISH.— Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful to take any fish with a gig or spear, net, seine, 
gun or trap of any kind, or set net, weir, or pot in any of the lakes, ponds, rivers or 
small streams of this Territory, but the provisions of this section shall not apply to 
legitimate fishing with hook, line and pole, or to persons catching small minnows 

for bait with seine not over ten feet in length. 

TRANSPORTATION— Laws 1903, Chap. XV.— Sec. 3. Any person who shall have or 
receive for transportation or carriage any of the birds or animals mentioned in Section 
1 [deer, buck, doe, fawn, antelope, jjrairie chicken, grouse, quail, wild turkey, doves, 
insectivorous birds] shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 

OHIO. 
Revised Statutes as amended 1904. 

PROTECTED BIRDS.— Sec. 6960. No person shall at any time, catch, kill or have in 
possession, either dead or alive, any dove, sparrow, nuthatch, warbler, flicker, vireo, wren, 
American robin, cat-bird, tanager, bobolink, blue-jay, oriole, grosbeak or red bird, creeper, 
red- start, wax-wing, wood-pecker, humming-bird, kildeer, swallow, blue-bird, black-bird, 
meadowlark,, bunting, starling, red-wing, purple-martin, brown-thrasher, American gold- 
finch, chewink or ground-robin, pewee or phoebe bird, chickadee, fly-catcher, gnat- 
catcher, mouse-hawk, whippoorwill, snow-bird, titmouse, gull, eagle or buzzard, or any 
other wild bird other than a game bird: Provided, That nothing in this section shall 
prohibit the killing of the chicken-hawk. Cooper's hawk, blue-hawk, crow, great-horned 
owl, or English sparrow. Provided owner of premises may kill black-birds when a 
nuisance. 

BIRDS. — Sec. 15. No person shall kill any Virginia partridge or quail, except from 
the 15th day of November to the 5th day of December; or any woodcock or Carolina dove, 
except from the 1st day of September to the 1st day of December; or any rail, shore 
bird, plover, snipe, wild duck, wild goose, wild swan, coot or mud hen, except from 
the 1st day of September to the 1st day of December, and the 1st day of March to the 20th 
day of April. No person shall injure or pursue any wild duck or other water fowl named 
in this section by the use of any gun except a common shoulder gun of not larger than 
ten gauge, or with the aid of or from any sink boat, sink box or sneak boat, or by the 
aid or use of any boat watsoever except a common row boat propelled by oars. No 
person shall kill any wild duck or other water fowl on Sunday or Monday, nor kill 
any such water fowl before sunrise or after sunset. 

SUNDAY.— No person shall hunt or shoot, or have in the open air for such purposes, 
any of the implements for hunting or shooting on any Sunday. 

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LIMIT. GAME ON GROUND.— No person shall kill in any one day more than 
eighteen Virginia partridge or quail, Carolina dove, woodcock, geese, rail, shore bird, 
plover or snipe, nor more than twenty-five duck. No person shall shoot at any Virginia 
partridge or quail or Carolina dove except when they are flying. 

GAME BIRDS.— The birds named in this section, and in Section 17 of this act, shall 
be known and be classed as game birds in contradistinction to all other birds. 

ANIMALS.— Sec. 16. No person shall kill any rabbit by use of any gun, except from 
the 15th day of November to the 5th day of December. Nothing in this section shall 
prohibit the killing of rabbits at any time, except on Sunday, in any manner, by the 
owner, where they may be found injuring grain, berries, fruit, vegetables, trees or 
shrubbery. It shall be unlawful to use any ferret in hunting rabbits. No person shall 
kill any raccoon, except from the 1st day of September to the 1st day of March. [Rabbits 
and raccoons may be killed when depredating.] No person shall kill any squirrel ex- 
cept from the 1st day of September to the 15th day of October, nor kill more than ten 
sq_uirrel in any one day. [Sale and export from State forbidden.] 

GROUSE, PHEASANT.— Sec. 17. No person shall kill any ruffed grouse, Mongolian 
pheasant, English pheasant, ring-necked pheasant, or other pheasant, before the 10th 
day of November, 1908, or after that date, except from the 10th day of November to the 
1st day of December. 

SALE, TRANSPORTATION.— Sec. 18. [No person shall take any of the birds 
mentioned in Sections 12, 15 and 17 for the purpose of sale within this State, or for 
the purpose of sale or shipment beyond the limits of this State. No person shall trans- 
port beyond the limits of this State any of the birds mentioned or included in Sections 
12, 15 and 17. See Section 22.] 

TRESPASS.— Sec. 20. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, or trap upon the 
lands, ponds, lakes, or private waters of another (except waters claimed by the riparian 
right of ownership of adjacent lands), or to thereon kill any bird, wild fowl, or wild 
animal of any kind, without first obtaining the written permission from the owner, or 
his authorized agent. 

LABEL SHIPMENTS.— Sec. 2L It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver or 
to receive for transportation, any package, box, or other receptacle containing birds, 
fish, or game, unless the same shall be labeled on the address side, in plain letters, with 
the name and address of the owner or consignor, and with the number and kind or 
kinds of birds, fish or game, which the said package contains. 

LICENSE FOR NON-RESIDENT.— Sec. 22. Any person who is a non-resident of 
the State shall make application for a hunter's license to the clerk of courts of the 
county in which he desires to hunt; and for such license he shall pay a fee of $15; and 
in addition thereto, the clerk of courts may charge the applicant a fee of twenty-five 
cents. Every such license shall expire on the 1st day of December next after its issue. 
Every such non-resident shall, when hunting, carry with him his license, and shall, upon 
demand, exhibit it to any warden or police officer. The license shall entitle a non-resi- 
dent to take with him from the State game and birds killed by him not to exceed fifty 
of all kinds. 

FISH. — Sec. 23. No person shall kill fish with any device whatever in any such 
waters, except with hook and line, with bait or lure. No person shall take or catch in 
any of the rivers, lakes, or ponds, or in any of the reservoirs of the State, any fish with 
what are known as trot-lines, bob-lines, set-lines or float-lines, or by spearing, except 
in that psrt of streams bordering on or running through his own lands. No person 
shall in any of the waters of the State, natural or artificial (including Buckeye Lake, 
Indian Lake, Grand or Loramie reservoirs), take or catch in any manner any black bass 
between May 1st and June 1st; provided, however, that in the bays connected with the 
waters of Lake Erie the closed season for fishing with hook and line, bait or lure for 
black bass, shall be between May 25th and July 15th. No person shall in any of the 
waters of the State (including Buckeye Lake and Indian Lake, Grand or Loramie 
reservoirs), while such waters are frozen over, covered with or partly covered with ice, 

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catch any fish, in any manner, through any hole cut in the ice, or through any fissure, 
crack, or break therein. No person shall buy or sell any black bass that has been caught in 
any of the rivers, creeks, or reservoirs, of the State, or in Buckeye Lake or Indian Lake, 
or in the waters of any other State or country; nor catch, take, or have in possession, 
any bass less" than ten inches in length (measurements to be made from end of nose to 
end of tail.) No person shall catch, sell, buy, or have in his possession, any brook trout, 
speckled trout. Yon Behr or brown trout, land-locked salmon, or California salmon, ex- 
cept from the 15th day of April to the 15th day of September. Nothing in this section 
shall prevent the taking of minnows for bait with a minnow seine not exceeding four 
feet in depth and ten feet in length; nor shall anything herein prevent the taking of 
fish in any manner in the ponds or lagoons formed by the receding waters of running 
streams when such ponds or lagoons no longer have any connection with the channels 
of such streams. And nothing in this section shall apply to the water of Lake Erie, or 
shall apply to private artificial fish ponds or privately owned lakes. 

DELAWARE. 

GAME BIRDS.— Chap. 507.— Sec. 1 [as amended 1905]. It shall be unlawful to kill 
an> partridge, quail, pheasant or rabbit, except between the 15th day of November and 
the 31st day of December; or any reedbird between the 1st day of February and the 1st 
day of September; or any ortolan or rail between the 1st day of February and the 1st day 
of September; or any wild goose, swan, brant, or any wild duck, except the summer or 
wood-duck, between the 15th day of April and the 1st day of October in any year-- 
Provided, That nothing in this act shall prevent the shooting of woodcock between the 
1st day of July and the 15th day of September. 

[WOODCOCK.— There is no close season for woodcock.] 

WILDFOWL— SWIVEL GUN— ARTIFICIAL LIGHT.— Sec. 5. That it shall be un- 
lawful to kill any wildfowl with any swivel or punt gun, or with any gun other than such 
as are habitually raised at arm's length and fired from the shoulder, or to kill any of 
said birds with the aid of any artificial lights or lantern. Chap. 655, Laws 1S93.— Sec. 
2. It shall be unlawful to shoot any species of ducks on the marshes in or bordering 
on this State in the night time— that is to say, from one hour after sunset to one hour 
before sunrise. 

GAME PROTECTED IN SNOW.— Chap. 100, Laws 1887.— Sec. 1. That it shall be 
unlawful for any person to hunt, kill or destroy, while the ground is covered with snow, 
any partridge, grouse, quail, woodcock, rabbit or hare. 

NON-RESIDENTS.— Chap. 100, Vol. 18.— Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any 
person not a citizen of this State to hunt, kill, take or destroy any partridge, grouse, quail, 
woodcock, rabbit or hare, reed-bird, ortolan or rail, unless he shall have first obtained 
a license from the "Delaware Game Protective Association." [Delaware Game Protective 
Association, Wilmington, Del. License fee, first year, $5; afterwards $2 per year.] 

EXPORTATION— NON-RESIDENTS.— Chap. 137, Laws 1891.— Sec. 1 [as amended by 
Chap. 654, Laws 1893]. That it shall be unlawful for any person to ship, take or carry 
out of this State any quail, partridge, robin, woodcock or wild rabbit, dead or alive, 
for purposes of sale or otherwise. And it shall also be unlawful for any person who is 
a non-resident of this State to ship or carry away any quail, partridge, robin, woodcock, 
Wilson or English snipe, or wild rabbit, dead or alive, from one county to another 
county in this State, for the purpose of sale or otherwise. 

BLACK BASS.— Chap. 372, Laws 1903.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful in any of the fresh- 
water streams and lakes of Delaware to fish for black bass, except with rod, hook and 
line, or with hand line upon which may be fastened not more than three hooks. 
Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to catch any black bass except from the 1st day of March 
until the 1st day of June inclusive. Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful to catch any black bass 
less than 7 inches in length. 

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WEST VIRGINIA. 
Law in effect May 6, 1901, as amended 1903. 
DEER; GAME EXPORT.— Sec. 1. No person shall kill any deer from the 15th day 
of December until the 15th day of October, except a tame deer owned by the person kill- 
ing the same. Nor shall any person kill more than two deer in any one season. No 
person shall chase or hunt any deer with dogs at any time. No person shall at any time 
kill any fawn when in its spotted coat, or have the fresh skin of any 
such fawn in his possession. No person shall at a'ny time kill or have in possession 
any deer, wild turkey, quail, pheasant or ruffed grouse, or any part of the same, with the 
intention of sending or transporting the same or having the same sent or transported be- 
yond the limits of this State. 

FISH.— Sec. 4. It shall not be lawful to catch any jack salmon, commonly called jack 
fish, or white salmon of less than seven inches in length; or any pike of less than eight 
inches in length; or any black bass less than six inches in length; or any speckled trout, 
or California mountain trout of less than four inches in length. And the measure- 
ment of fish shall be from end of nose to center fork of tail. It shall not be lawful to catch 
any jack salmon (commonly called jack fish, or white salmon), in any manner between 
the 15th day of April and 15th day of June; nor to catch any brook trout or landlocked 
salmon in any manner between the 1st day of September and 1st day of January. It shall 
not be lawful to catch any black bass, green bass, willow bass, rock bass, pike or pickerel, 
or wall-eyed pike (commonly known as salmon) between the 15th day of April and the 
15th day of June. It shall be lawful to catch fish of the sucker variety known as suckers, 
carp, mullet and red horse, by gig, spear and looping at any time; it shall be unlawful to 
kill bass by spear or gig between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of November fol- 
lowing. But nothing in this act shall be construed as to prevent the catching of minnows 
or other small fish, except salmon, bass, shad and trout, by means of hand, or cast nets, 
to be used for angling or scientific purposes; nor to prevent any person from taking in 
any way fish from his private dam, pond or spring at any time. 

BIRDS NO,T GAME.— Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to 
catch, kill or injure, or to have in possession, either dead or alive, or to disturb or 
destroy the eggs or nest of any turkey buzzard, the family of fringillidae, or sparrow 
(except English sparrows), robin, bluebird, martin, thrush, mockingbird, swallow, oriole, 
catbird, chewink, wren, cuckoo, indigo-bird, nuthatch, yellow hammer or flicker, warble 
or finch, redstart, dummock, nightingale, crossbill, Hungarian robin, titmouse, tit, or 
tomtit, woodpecker, or purple grackle, red-wing blackbird, bluejay, phoebe bird or pewee, 
redbird, or cardinal grosbeak, humming-bird, dove, whip-poor-will and any other bird 
whose habits are not essentially predatory upon and destructive of the agricultural 
products of man. 

GAME BIRDS; SQUIRREL, HARE, RABBIT.-Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any 
person to kill any ruffed grouse, pheasant, pinnated grouse, prairie chicken or wild 
turkey, between the 15th day of December and the 15th day of October following, or 
any quail or Virginia partridge between the 20th day of December and the 1st day of 
November following, nor shall any person kill more than twelve quails or partridges in 
any one day; or any blue-winged teal, mallard, or wood duck, or any other wild duck, 
wild goose, or brant, at any time between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of 
October, or any snipe except between the 1st day of March and the 1st day of July and 
the 1st day of November, inclusive; or any squirrel, rabbit or hare, between the 1st day 
of January and the 15th day of September following: Provided, That nothing in this 
section shall be construed as to prevent resident land owners of this State from catching, 
killing, injuring, or pursuing in the manner prescribed by law any such squirrel, 
rabbit or hare, at any time upon their own lands. And it shall be unlawful for any per- 
son at any time to catch by seine, net or trap, any wild turkey, ruffed grouse, pheasant, 
quail or Virginia partridge; or to kill any wild turkey on bait. And it shall be unlawful 
for any person, by the use of any swivel or pivot gun, or by the aid of any push boat 
or sneak boat, used for carrying such guns, to kill upon any of the waters, bogs, rivers, 

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marshes, mud flats, or to any cover to which wildfowl resort within this State, any 
wild duck, wild goose, or brant. 

SHOOTING IN THE PUBLIC ROAD.-Sec. 13. No person shall shoot in the public 
road at any time, nor when shooting on the lands of another shall discharge any firearms 
on any lawn, pleasure ground or orchard or other ground which is directly appurtenant 
to or within gunshot of an occupied dwelling house. 

FERRETS.— Sec. 15a. It shall be unlawful for any person to v«e a ferret for the 
purpose of catching rabbits or driving them from their burrows. 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.-Sec. 17. It shall be unlawful for any person not a 
citizen of West Virginia to hunt in this State without having first obtained a license 
from the game warden of this State. Any non-resident of the State may procure a hun- 
ter's license from the State game warden by filing a written application, stating his 
name, age, residence, post ofhce address, color of hair and eyes, weight and height, and 
paying to the game warden a fee of fifteen dollars, and such license shall be good only 
for the period of one year from the date of such license. Every person claiming to 
hold a hunter's license shall produce the same for inspection whenever required by the 
prosecuting attorney, sheriff, justices of the peace, assessors, or constables of the county, 
or game and fish warden, deputy warden or owner of the land on which such licensee 
should then be hunting, and if he fail or refuse to do so, shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent 
or hinder any non-resident from hunting on any lands he may own in fee simple in this 
State during the open seasons herein provided for. 

FISH IN THE POTOMAC— Chap 17, Laws 1897.- Sec. 2. It shall not be lawful to 
kill any black bass, green bass, rock bass, pike or pickerel or wall-eyed pike, commonly 
known as salmon, between the 15th day of April and the 1st day of June, or to kill any of 
said species of fish at any other time of year save only with rod, hook and line or dip 
net. The words "hook and line" shall not include trot-lines or out-lines. Sec. 4. That 
the provisions of this act shall not be applicable below the Little Falls, near Washington, 
and that the same shall become effective whenever they shall be adopted by the respectively 
named States, and the proclamation by the Governor of this State of such action by the 
States of Virginia and Maryland. 

VIRGINIA. 
Code of 1887 as amended to 1904. 

TROUT.— Sec. 2108 [as amended by Chap. 679, Laws 1894]. It shall be unlawful to 
capture mountain trout between the 15th day of September and the 1st day oi April, or at 
any time except by angling with hook and line. [California trout protected in North, 
South and Middle forks of Holston River for four years after stocking by U. S. Com- 
mission. Special county close seasons for trout in Alleghany, Bath and Highland, July 
1 to May 1. Rappahannock, July 1 to May 1. Rockingham, July 1 to April 1.] 

RIVER OR POND BASS.— Sec. 2108 [as amended by Chap. 679, Laws 1894]. It shall 
Be unlawful to capture any river bass (commonly called black bass or black perch) or 
pond bass (commonly called Southern chub) between the 15th day of May and the 1st 
day of July. [Chap. 545, Laws 1894, forbids taking any fish in the Shenandoah River or 
tributaries between April 1 and May 15.] 

POTOMAC FISHING.— Chap. 627, Laws 1896.— Sec. 1. That it shall not be lawful for 
any person to catch or kill any black bass, green bass, rock bass, pike (or pickerel), or 
wall-eyed pike (commonly known as salmon), in Potomac River between the 15th day 
of April and the 1st day of June. [Law does not apply below little falls, near Washington.] 

METHODS.— Sec. 2070a (1) It shall be unlawful to kill any wild water fowl or wild 
turkey at any time during the night, or at any time to capture them in traps or nets or 
other contrivances, or to use reflectors or other lights, or sneak boats or artificial islands 
in detecting or capturing or shooting of wild fowl or game of any kind, or to shoot at 
any game on land or water with a gun larger than an eight-bore. 

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SEASONS.— (2) It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or have in possession any 
wild turkey, pheasant or grouse, quail or partridge or woodcock east of the Blue Ridge 
Mountains between February 1 and November 1, and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains 
between December 31 and November 1, or to track or hunt any of them in snow, except 
wild turkey, or to trap or net them at any time, or to destroy their nests, eggs or young 
at any time, or to kill or have in possession any wild deer between January 1 and 
October 1, or to track or hunt them in snow, or to kill or have in possession any winter 
wild water fowl between April 1 and October 15, or summer or woodduck'between January 
1 and August 1, or any rail, mudhen, gallinule, ploVer, surf bird, snipe, except Wilson or 
English snipe, sandpiper, willit, tattler or curlew between January 1 and July 20, or 
robins between April 1 and February 15. 

NIGHT, SUNDAY.— (3) It shall be unlawful to hunt any game birds, or game ani- 
mals later than a half hour after sunset or earlier than a half an hour before sunrise, or 
on Sunday. 

SORA.— (6) Nothing in this section shall be construed to refer to the sora. 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.— Sec. 2070c. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person 
not a resident of this State to hunt or kill wild water fowl, wild turkey, pheasant or 
grouse, woodcock, partridge, quail or other game birds, or deer, within this State until 
he shall have first secured a hunting license; Provided, however, The non-resident child 
of resident owners of land shall be allowed to hunt on the lands of his parent; and the 
non-resident guest of a resident land owner shall be allowed to hunt on the lands of his 
host when accompanied by said host or a member of his host's family; provided said host 
receives no compensation, directly or indirectly, from said guest. (2) Upon a personal 
application of any non-resident to the clerk of the Circuit Court of any county in which 
he first begins to hunt, such clerk shall, upon the payment of $10, issue to such non- 
resident a hunting license entitling him to hunt and kill wild water fowl, wild turkey, 
pheasant or grouse, woodcock, partridges, quail and other game birds during the open 
season in the six months next following. Such license shall not be transferable. 

EXPORT. — (3) It shall be unlawful, except as hereinafter provided, to ship or trans- 
port, or to cause to be shipped or transported, from this State, whether alive or dead, 
wild water fowl, wild turkeys, pheasants or grouse, woodcock, partridge, quail, or other 
game birds, or any deer or venison, killed or captured within this State, nor shall the 
same be killed, captured or possessed with intent to ship or transport from this State. 
(4) Any person authorized to hunt under the laws of this State may, during the open 
season, take with him out of the State, either in his personal possession or as his 
baggage, on the same conveyance with him, not in a closed package, but exposed to 
view, not exceeding thirty wild water fowl, fifty quail or partridges, ten pheasants or 
grouse, three wild turkeys, one deer, or plovers, snipe, sandpipers, willits, tattlers or 
curlews, not exceeding twenty-five of each, or not exceeding one hundred in the 
aggregate, when killed or captured by himself; Provided, The same shall be plainly 
labeled or tagged with the name and address of such person; and any citizen of this 
State may, during the open season, ship or have transported from this State, as a gift, 
and not for market or sale, so stating on the shipping tag, one deer during the season, 
and not exceeding three wild turkeys, six pheasants, twelve wild water fowl, eighteen 
partridges or quail; Provided, That such game shall be shipped exposed to public 
view and unconcealed, and each parcel or package shall be plainly labeled or tagged with 
the name and address of the donor and of the donee, and the number of each of such 
game so shipped. This section shall not apply to sora, or rabbits or hares. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 2079. It shall be unlawful at any time to kill or capture the 
turkey buzzard, or black buzzard, to kill or ship alive out of the State the mocking bird, 
or kill or capture the thrush, goldfinch, oriole, wren, rain crow, cardinal or redbird, 
wood robin, bluebird, martin, starling or any wild bird other than the game birds herein 
named: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to the 
English sparrow, owl, hawk, eagle, crow, crow blackbird, rice bird, Wilson or English 
snipe, robin snipe. 

RABBITS are protected in Accomac, Northampton, Jan. 15 to Nov. 15. Alexandria, 
Jan. 1 to Oct. 1. Amelia, Charlotte, Greenesville, Spottsylvania, Sussex, Feb. 1 to Oct. 1. 

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Buckingham, Cumberland, Feb. 15 to Oct. 15. Caroline, Essex, Hanover, Henrico, King 
William, Feb. 1 to Nov. 1. Chesterfield, Feb. 1 to Sept. 1. Culpeper, Orange, Jan. 15 
to Nov. 1. Elizabeth City, Feb. 1 to Nov. 15. Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince 
William, Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. Halifax, Feb. 1 to Oct. 15. Nottaway, Jan. 1 to Sept. 1. 
Shenandoah, March 1 to Nov. 1. Stafford, Feb. 1 to Sept. 15. 

MONGOLIAN, ENGLISH PHEASANTS protected always in Albemarle, Alleghany, 
Bath, Bedford, Culpeper, Highland, Louisa, Montgomery, Orange. Fairfax, Fauquier, 
Loudoun, Prince William, Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. Shenandoah, Feb. 1 to Oct. 1. 

ACCOMAC AND NORTHAMPTON.— Pheasants, grouse of any kind, protected to 

NEW MEXICO. 

ELK, MOUNTAIN SHEEP, BEAVEK, PTARMIGAN.— Act of 1905.— Sec. 1. It 
shall be unlawful to kill, at any time, any elk, mountain sheep, beaver or ptarmigan: 
Provided, That the Territorial game and fish warden may grant permits for the 
capture of such beaver as interfere with the operation of any lawful canal, ditch or 
dam, and for the capture of beaver to be transferred from one stream to another. 

CLOSE SEASON.— Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to kill any antelope, pheasant, bob- 
white quail or wild pigeon for a period of five years after the passage of this act. 
It shall be unlawful to kill any deer within the Territory of New Mexico, except that 
deer with horns may be killed with a gun only during the period commencing Sept. 
15, and ending Oct. 31, of each year: Provided, That no person shall kill or have in 
his possession more than one such deer during said period in each year. It shall be 
unlawful to kill any turtle dove, except that such birds may be killed with a gun only, 
during the period commencing with the 1st day of August and ending with the 31st day 
of September of each year. It shall be unlawful to kill any native or crested quail, 
except that such birds may be killed with a gun only, during the months of October, 
November and December of each year. It shall be unlawful to kill any wild turkey, 
mountain grouse, or prairie chicken, except that such birds may be killed with a gun 
only during the months of October, November and December of each year. 

POSSESSION.— Sec. 3. No game fish, or any game known as elk, deer, antelope, or 
mountain sheep killed within the Territory of New Mexico, or any game birds known as 
wild turkey, mountain grouse, native or crested quail, turtle dove, pheasant, bob white 
quail, wild pigeon or ptarmigan killed within the Territory of New Mexico shall be held 
in possession by any person for more than five days after the close of the season for 
killing the same. 

MOUNTAIN GOAT, BEAVER.— Act of March 10, 1S97.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful 
to kill any Rocky Mountain goat or beaver. 

EXPORTATION.— Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any railway, express company, 
stage line or public carrier to transport outside the Territory any of the game, birds or 
animals mentioned in this act, or the flesh or hides thereof. 

GAME FISH.— Act of March 7, 1903.— Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to catch, kill or 
have in possession any species of trout or game fish found in the public waters of this 
Territory, unless such fish has been taken with a hook and line attached to a rod or held 
in the hand, and unless such fish be so caught or taken between the 15th day of May 
and the 15th day of October. Sec. 5. No species of trout or other game fish shall be 
taken in any manner or at any time from the public waters of this Territory, unless 
such fish be of a length not less than six inches. Sec. 12. Game fish, as defined by this 
act are small and large mouth bass and speckled trout of whatsoever variety or species. 

SALE OF FISH AND GAME.— Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to buy or 
sell, or to expose or offer for sale any species of trout or game food fish taken from the 
public streams or waters of this Territory, or any game known as elk, deer, antelope, or 
mountain sheep, at any time during the year. 

LIMIT OF FISH CATCH.— Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch 
or kill or have in possession, in any one day, more than fifteen pounds of speckled trout 
or more than twenty-five pounds of bass, taken from any of the public waters. 

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NEW YORK. 
Chapter 20, Laws 1900, as amended 1905. 

Sec. 2. DEER, CLOSE SEASON.— The close season for wild deer shall be from 
November 16th to August 31st, both inclusive. No person shall take more than two deer 
in an open season. No person shall take any wild deer between sunset and sunrise. An 
owner may retake, alive, deer which have escaped from his possession. Sec. 3. There 
shall be no open season in the counties of Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, 
Oswego, Putnam, Kensselaer, Kockland, Westchester' and Ulster, and in all that portion 
of Oneida, Lewis and Jefferson counties lying westerly of the Utica and Black river 
railroad from Utica to Ogdensburg before September 1st, 1907. The close season for 
wild deer in the counties of Sullivan and Orange shall be from November 16th to 
October 31st, both inclusive. 

Sec. 4. POSSESSION, FAWNS, METHODS.— Wild deer or venison shall not be 
possessed or sold from November 21st to August 31st, both inclusive. Sec. 5. Fawns 
in the spotted or red coat shall not be taken, nor shall any part thereof be possessed at 
any time. Sec. 6. No traps, salt lick, or other device to entrap or entice deer shall be 
made, set or used, nor shall deer be taken by aid or use thereof. No jack light or other 
artificial light shall be used in taking deer. Sec. 7. Deer shall not be taken by crusting 
(so called) or while they are yarded. 

Sec. 8. TRANSPORTATION.— Deer or venison killed in this State shall not be trans- 
ported from or through any county, or possessed for that purpose, except as follows: 
One carcass or a part thereof may be transported from the county where killed when ac- 
companied by the owner. No person shall transport or accompany more than two deer 
in any year under this section. This section does not apply to the head, feet or skin of 
deer if carried separately. 

Sec. 9. HOUNDING, DOGS TO BE KILLED.— Deer shall not be hunted, pursued 
or killed with any dog or bitch. Dogs of the breed commonly used for hunting deer, or 
dogs that are trained to, or will pursue deer, shall not be permitted by the owner or 
persons harboring the same to run at large in or to be taken in the forest inhabited by 
deer or kept or possessed in the Adirondack Park. Any person may, and it is the duty 
of every game protector to kill a dog or bitch found in the Adirondack Park or in a 
deer forest, or pursuing deer, and no action for damage shall be maintained against a 
person for such killing. 

Sec. 11. WILD MOOSE, ELK, CARIBOU AND ANTELOPE.— There shall be no 
open season for wild moose, elk, caribou or antelope, but they may be brought into the 
State for breeding purposes. The flesh or any portion of any such animal shall not be 
possessed, sold or transported during the close season for deer or during the open season 
for deer unless the animal was killed without the State or by the owner thereof in a 
private park within the State during the open season for deer. Possession thereof during 
such open season shall be presumptive evidence that it was unlawfully taken by the 
possessor. 

Sec. 11a. BLACK BEAR.— Wild black bear shall not be killed, taken or possessed 
from July 1st to September 30th, both inclusive. Whoever shall kill or take a black bear 
shall, within sixty days, file with the Forest, Fish and Game Commission a record of 
the date such black bear was killed or taken, the place where killed or taken, together 
with the sex and approximate weight of said bear. The county of Essex is excepted 
from the provisions of this section. 

Sec. 12. BLACK AND GRAY SQUIRRELS.-Black and gray squirrels shall not be 
taken, possessed or sold from December 1st to September 15th, both inclusive. Sec. 
12a. The close season in Greene county shall be from December 16th to September 30th, 
and in Rensselaer, Sullivan and Dutchess counties from December 1st to September 30th, 
both inclusive; in Orange county from December 16th to October 15th, both inclusive; 
Chautauqua county from December 1st to October 15th, both inclusive, and in Saratoga 
county from November 1st to September 15th, both inclusive. 

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Sec. 13. HARES AND KABBITS.— The close season for hares and rabbits shall be, 
in the counties of Albany, Columbia, Genesee, Monroe, Orleans and Wyoming, from 
December 16th to September 15th, both inclusive; in the county of Ulster, from January 
16th to September 30th, both inclusive; in the county of Orange, from December 16th 
to October 15th, both inclusive; in the counties of Cortland and Broome, from December 
1st to September 15th, both inclusive; in the county of Livingston, from January 16th 
to September 30th, both inclusive; in the county of Rockland, from December 31st to 
October 31st, both inclusive; in Herkimer and Oneida counties, from February 15th 
to September 15th, both inclusive; in the counties of Sullivan, Steuben, Rensselaer, Madi- 
son and Erie, from February 16th to September 30th, both inclusive; in the county of 
Schenectady, from February 1st to October 31st, both inclusive, and in the cqunties of 
Fulton and Greene, from February 1st to October 31st, both inclusive; in the county of 
Dutchess, from December 1st to October 15th, both inclusive; in the county of Rich- 
mond, from December 16th to October 31st, both inclusive; and in the county of West- 
chester, from December 1st to October 31st, both inclusive, in which two last named 
counties hares and rabbits shall not be taken when snow is on the ground. Hares 
and rabbits shall not be hunted with ferrets in any county except the counties of Fulton 
and Hamilton. Nothing in this section shall prevent the owner of inclosed or oc- 
cupied farm lands from taking hares or rabbits on his own premises at any time to pre- 
vent their injuring property. [There is no close season on hares or rabbits, except in 
the counties named in the foregoing section and on Long Island, Section 102.] 

Sec. 14. BEAVER, CLOSE SEASON.— There shall be no open season for beaver. 
No person shall take, trap, or snare, in any manner, any beaver, or have in his posses- 
sion any beaver, so taken, trapped or snared. No person shall molest or disturb any 
wild beaver or the dams, houses, homes or abiding places of same. 

Sec. 15. MINK, SKUNK, MUSKRAT AND FOXES.— The close season for mink, 
skunk and muskrat in the counties of Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, 
Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Genesee, Greene, Jefferson, Livingston, Madison, Oneida, 
Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego, Seneca, Saint Lawrence, Wayne and Wyoming, shall be 
from May 1st to October 31st, both inclusive. The close season for foxes in the counties 
of Chautauqua, Chemung, Genesee, Livingston, Wayne and Wyoming shall be from 
May 1st to September 30th, both inclusive. Muskrat houses shall not be injured or 
destroyed at any time. The provisions of this section, except the provisions relating to 
muskrat houses, do not apply to the acts of an owner or possessor of lands thereon, 
or to the territory of a city or incorporated village. 

Sec. 15a. LAND TURTLES.— Taking, killing or exposing for sale of all land turtles 
or tortoises, including the box turtle and the wood turtle, is hereby prohibited. 

Sec. 20. WILDFOWL.— Ducks, geese, brant and swan shall not be taken from Jan- 
uary 1st to September 15th, both inclusive, or possessed from March 1st to September 
15th, both inclusive; or taken in the night from an hour after sunset until an hour 
before sunrise. Sec. 20a. Ducks, geese, brant and swan shall not be taken in the 
county of Jefferson from January 1st to September 15th, both inclusive; or taken in 
the night from one-half hour after sunset until daylight. Sec. 21. Ducks, geese, brant 
and swan shall not be taken except with a gun fired at arm's length without rest. They 
shall not be fired at from a boat propelled otherwise than by hand or from any bough- 
house or floating devise used to conceal the hunter if more than fifty feet from shore, 
or a natural growth of grass or flags. Fowl taken in violation of law shall not be 
brought ashore, sold or possessed. 

Sec. 22. QUAIL, CLOSE SEASON.— The close season for quail shall be from 
December 1st to October 31st, both inclusive. [Special county close seasons— Richmond, 
protected to 1908; Saratoga and Schoharie, to 1906. Rensselaer, December 1st to Septem- 
ber 30th, inclusive. Orange and Ulster, December 16th to October 15th, inclusive. 
Cattaraugus and Chautauqua, December 1st to October 15th, inclusive. Schenectady, to 
1906.] 

Sec. 23. WOODCOCK.— Woodcock shall not be taken from December 1st to Sep- 
tember 15th, both inclusive. No person shall take more than thirty-six woodcock in 

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an open season. [Special county close seasons— Greene, Tioga, Sullivan, Dutchess and 
Rensselaer, December 1st to September 30th, inclusive. Orange and Ulster, December 
16th to October 15th, inclusive. Saratoga, November 1st to September 15th, inclusive. 
Cattaraugus and Chautauqua, December 1st to October 15th, both inclusive. Schenectady 
to 190G.] 

Sec. 25. GROUSE.— The close season for grouse shall be from December 1st to 
September 15th, both inclusive. No person shall take more than thirty-six grouse in 
an open season. [Special county close seasons— Sullivan, Greene, Tioga and Dutchess, 
December 1st to September 30th, inclusive. Rensselaer, December 1st to September 30th, 
inclusive. Orange and Ulster, December Itith to October 15th, inclusive. Saratoga, 
November 1st to September 15th, inclusive. Cattaraugus and Chautauqua, December 1st 
to October 15th, inclusive. Schenectady, to 1906.] 

Sec. 27. GROUSE AND WOODCOCK, SALE, EXPORT.— Grouse and woodcock 
taken in this State shall not be sold or offered for sale within this State, or carried with- 
out the State, nor shall grouse or woodcock taken without the State be sold, or offered 
for sale within the State [except by persons who have given bond to the Commissioners]. 

Sec. 28. WOODCOCK, GROUSE AND QUAIL, NOT TO BE POSSESSED.-Wood- 
cock, grouse and quail shall not be sold or possessed during the close season, except in 
the month of December, and possession or sale thereof during December shall be pre- 
sumptive evidence that they were unlawfully taken by the possessor. 

Sec. 29. WOODCOCK, GROUSE AND (JUAIL, NOT TO BE TRANSPORTED.— 
Woodcock, grouse and quail shall not be transported within this State or into the State 
from a point without the State less than twenty-five miles from the State line, unless 
accompanied by the actual owner thereof, and no person shall transport or accompany 
more than thirty-si.x grouse or thirty-six woodcock in any calendar year, or more than 
twelve of either kind at one time. No common carrier or person in its emplay shall 
transport such birds as owner. 

Sec. 29a. WOODCOCK GROUSE AND QUAIL shall not be taken in Delaware, 
Orange, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties for the purpose of selling or 
offering to sell the same; nor shall any person sell or offer for sale any such woodcock, 
grouse and quail. ' 

Sec. 296. WOODCOCK, GROUSE AND QUAIL IN ORANGE COUNTY.— No 
person shall take in the county of Orange more than twelve woodcock, twelve grouse 
and twelve quail at any one time, or on any one day; nor shall any person take in vjch 
county in any one calendar year more than thirty-six of either variety of such birds. 

Sec. 30. PLOVER AND OTHER BIRDS, CLOSE SEASON.-Wilson (called Eng 
lish snipe), yellow legs, rail, mudhen, gallinule, surfbirds, curlew, water chicken, jack- 
snipe, baysnipe or shore birds, shall not be taken or possessed from January 1st to 
September 15th, both inclusive. Plover shall not be taken or possessed from January 1st 
to August 15th, both inclusive. 

Sec. 31. MONGOLIAN RING-NECKED AND ENGLISH PHEASANTS.— There 
shall be no open season for Mongolian ring-necked or English pheasants, nor shall 
the same be killed or possesed, except in the county of Suffolk, prior to the year 1910; 
provided, however, that pheasants bred or purchased and liberated in Suffolk county, 
by the game clubs and private owners, may be possessed in Greater New i^ork tor 
consumption but not for sale. Neither Mongolian ring-necked pheasants nor English 
pheasants shall be taken or possessed in the county of Suffolk from January 1st to 
October 31st, both inclusive. 

Sec. 33. CERTAIN WILD BIRDS PROTECTED.- Wild birds other than the 
English sparrow, crow, hawk, crow blackbird, snow owl and great horned owl shall not 
be taken or possessed at any time, dead or alive, except under the authority of a cer- 
tificate issued under this act. No part of the plumage, skin or body of any bird pro- 
tected by this section shall be sold or had in possession for sale. The provisions of this 
section shall not apply to game birds for which an open season is provided in this act. 

Sec. 34. DESTROYING OR ROBBING NKS'iS.— Nests of wild birds other than the 

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English sparrow, crow, hawk, crow-black-bird, snow owl and great horned owl, shall 
not be robbed or wilfully destroyed, except when necessary to protect biuldings or pre- 
vent their defacement. 

Sec. 35. SNARES.— No bird for which a close season is provided shall be trapped, 
netted or snared. No net, trap or snare for taking grouse or quail shall be set, placed 
or used where such birds can be taken. Any such net, trap or snare is declared to be a 
public nuisance, and may be summarily abated and destroyed by any person. 

Sec. 36. CERTIFICATE TO COLLECT FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES.-A certifi- 
cate may be issued by the Commission, to any person upward -of eighteen years of age, 
permitting the holder thereof to collect birds, birds' nests or eggs for scientific purposes. 
Before such certificate is issued, the applicant must file written testimonials from two 
well known scientific men certifying to his good character and fitness to be entrusted 
with the privilege. Every applicant, except an officer of the New York State Museum, 
must pay $1 for the expense of issuing the certificate, and must file a bond in the 
penal sum of $200 with two responsible and approved sureties, conditioned that he will 
not violate the provisions of this act, or avail himself of the privileges of said certificate 
for other than scientific purposes. Such a certificate shall be in force for one year only 
from the date of issue and shall not be transferable. 

Sec. 37. WESTCHESTER COUNTY.— Game shall not be taken in a public highway, 
or on the lands of a railway or lands purchased or condemned for the Croton aqueduct 
within the county of Westchester. 

Sec. 38. BIRDS AND GAME NOT TRANSPORTED.— Birds or quadrupeds or parts 
thereof, game, except fish taken in this State, shall not, except as herein provided, be 
transported without the State; nor shall the same be taken or possessed with intent to 
transport the same without the State. Any person doing any act with reference to such 
birds or game in aid of such taking or transportation with knowledge of the intention to 
so transport the same shall be deemed to have violated this section. This section does 
not apply to the head, feet or skin of deer when severed from the carcass, or to quad- 
rupeds named in Section 15 of this act. 

Sec. 40. TROUT SEASON, POSSESSION, LENGTH.— The close season for trout 
shall be from September 1st to April 15th, both inclusive, but if the 16th day of April 
shall be Sunday in any year, such close season shall end with the 14th day of April. 
Trout shall not be sold or possessed in any county during the season that is closed 
through the entire county, except as provided in Section 109. Trout less than six inches 
in length shall not be taken or possessed, and if taken shall without avoidable injury 
be immediately returned to the waters where taken. 

bee. 4L TROUT, CLOSE SEASON, SPECIAL.— The close season for trout in Spring 
Brook in the counties of Monroe and Livingston, shall be from September 1st to March 
28th, both inclusive; in the brooks in the towns of Gilboa and Conesville, Schoharie 
county, except the Schoharie River, from August 1st to April 30th, both inclusive; in 
all the brooks, streams and waters inhabited by trout in the counties of Allegany, Cat- 
taraugus, Chautauqua, Cortland and Tompkins, from July 16th to April 15th, both 
inclusive; in the brooks and streams of (Jrange county from September 1st to March 31st, 
both inclusive. [I'rotected in Saratoga, Rensselaer, Warren and Washington counties 
from September 1st to April oOth, both inclusive; and in Erie county to June 1, 1906.] 

Sec. 42. TROUT NOT DISTURBED WHILE SPAWNING.— Trout and lake trout 
on spawning beds in the close season, shall not be willfully disturbed. 

Sec. 43. WATERS INHABITED BY TROUT.— Fish shall not be taken in fresh 
waters inhabited by trout, except by angling. 

Sec. 43a. TROUT IN CHENANGO, DELAWARE, GREENE, RENSSELAER, 
SCHOHARIE, SULLIVAN, ULSTER AND ESSEX NOT TO BE SOLD.— Trout 
shall not be taken from any of the streams in Chenango, Delaware, Greene, Rensselaer, 
Schoharie, Sullivan, Essex and Ulster counties at any time for the purpose of selling 
or offering to sell the same; nor shall any person sell or offer for sale any such trout. 
This act shall not apply to private hatcheries. 

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Sec. 43b. TROUT, CLOSE SEASON FOR SALE,— Trout shall not be sold, exposed 
for sale, or possessed for the purpose of selling from September 1st to April 21st in any 
year. 

Sec. 44. LAKE TROUT, CLOSE SEASON.— The close season for lake trout shall 
be from October 1st to April 15th, both inclusive, except in lakes Erie and Ontario, where 
there shall be no close season; and except in the counties of Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, 
Orange, Rockland, Westchester and Richmond, where the close season shall be from 
July 1st to March 31st, both inclusive. Lake trout less than fifteen inches in length 
shall not be intentionally taken or possessed, and if taken, shall, without avoidable injury, 
be returned to the waters where taken. 

Sec. 45. BLACK BASS, CLOSE SEASON, SIZE AND CATCH.— The close season 
for black bass shall be from January 1st to June 15th, both inclusive. Black bass less 
than ten inches in length shall not be intentionally taken, and if taken, shall, without 
injury, be immediately returned to the waters where taken. No person shall take more 
than twenty-four black bass in one day. Whenever two or more persons are angling 
from the same boat, they shall not take more than thirty-six bass in one day. Black 
bass shall not be possessed in any county during the season that is closed throughout 
the entire county, or when they are unlawfully taken. Bass shall not be taken in any 
manner, except by angling, in any of the waters of this State. 

Sec. 46. BLACK BASS, SPECIAL.— The close season for black bass shall be in the 
St. Lawrence River and in waters in Jefferson county from Jan. 1 to June 9, both in- 
clusive; in Lake George and Schroon Lake, from Dec. 16 to July 31, both inclusive; in 
Salmon River, in the town of Fort Covington, between the Canada line and a dam on said 
river known as A. Wright, or the Fort Covington Milling Company's dam in the village 
of Fort Covington, and in the St. Regis River, in the town of Bombay, in Franklin 
county, between the Canada line and a dam in the village of Hogansburg known as the 
Mill's and Lantry dam, from Nov. 15 to May 1, both inclusive. Black bass shall not be 
taken from the waters of Orange Lake, in Orange county, in the night from one hour 
after sunset until one hour before sunrise. No person shall take more than twelve black 
bass in the St. Lawrence River in one day, and whenever two or more persons are 
angling from the same boat, they shall not take more than twenty-four bass in one day. 

Sec. 47. PICKEREL AND PIKE.— Pickerel and wall-eyed and yellow pike shall not 
be taken or possessed from March 1st to April 30th, both inclusive. The Commission 
may permit the taking or destruction of pickerel at any time in waters inhabited by 
trout. Wall-eyed pike and yellow pike, less than ten inches in length, shall not be 
taken or possessed in the counties of Oneida, Madison, Oswego and Onondaga, except 
in Lake Ontario. 

Sec. 48. MUSKALLONGE, CLOSE SEASON.- Muskallonge shall not be taken or 
possessed from March 1st to May 30th, both inclusive, except as provided in Section 83. 
Muskallonge less than twenty-four inches in length shall not be possessed or taken, and 
if taken, shall, without injury be immediately returned to the water where taken. The 
provisions of this section shall not apply to Chautauqua or Cattaraugus counties. [Sec. 
83 provides that muskallonge and billfish may be speared in Cassadaga and Bear Lakes 
on five Mondays and Thursdays, beginning with first Monday in February; and in 
Chautauqua Lake on every Thursday in February.] 

Sec. 49. SALMON. — Salmon shall not be taken or, if taken in this State, possessed 
from Aug. 15 to March 1, both inclusive. 

Sec. 50. SALT WATER STRIPED BASS.— Salt water striped bass less than eight 
inches in length shall not be intentionally taken at any time. Striped bass shall not be 
intentionally taken from the Hudson River by a net between April 30th and July 30th, 
both inclusive. If taken in either case, the same shall be immediately returned to the 
water where taken without avoidable injury. 

Sec. 51. FISHWAYS.— No person shall take fish within fifty rods of any fishway. 

Sec. 52. POLLUTING STREAMS.— No dyestuflf, coal tar, refuse from a gas house, 
sawdust, shavings, tanbark, lime or other deleterious or poisonous substance shall be 

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thrown or allowed to run into any waters, cither private or public, in quantities de- 
structive of fish inhabiting the same. 

Sec. 54 DRAWING OFF WATER FORBlDUJiJN.— Fish shall not be taken by shut- 
ting or drawing off water for that purpose. Jiut the Commission may permit owners or 
persons in charge of private ponds, reservoirs or waters of the State, to remove therefrom 
carp, pickerel or other fish by any device. 

Sec. 56. EXPLOSIVES.— Fish shall not be taken by means of explosives. Except for 
mining or mechanical purposes, dynamite or other explosives shall not be used in any of 
the waters of this State, or possessed upon the shores or islands of inland waters. 

Sec. 57. WATERS NOT STOCKED FROM STREAMS.— Trout or- lake trout shall 
not be taken from any of the waters of the State for the purpose of stocking private 
ponds or streams. 

Sec. 58. NO FISHING THROUGH ICE.— Fish shall not be taken through the ice 
in waters inhabited by trout or lake trout during the close season. [There are many 
local exceptions.] 

Sec. 60. CERTAIN FISH NOT TO BE TRANSPORTED.-Lake trout taken in in- 
land waters and trout shall not be transported in this State, except when accompanied 
by the actual owner. No person shall transport or accompany at any one time more 
than twelve pounds of trout. 

Sec. 02. TAKING MINNOWS FOR BAIT.— Except in waters inhabited by trout, 
and creeks and brooks, minnows for bait may be taken with a net not more than six 
feet in length or diameter, without a license. Except in waters inhabited by trout they 
may be taken with a net if the owner thereof shall have first obtained from the Com- 
mission a license therefor. Such a license can be granted only upon the payment of a 
license fee of one dollar and the execution of a bond by the owner of the net, to be 
approved by the Commission, conditioned for the payment to the people of the State of 
one hundred dollars if the holder thereof violates any of the provisions of this section 
or any of the regulations contained in the license while the license is in force. The 
license must specify the waters in which the net may be used, and may contain regu- 
lations for the protection of fish. Black bass, muscallonge, white fish, pickerel or 
pike taken in a net used under this section shall be immediately returned to the water 
uninjured. Minnows shall not be taken within one hundred feet of any dock, pier, or 
boat landing structure along the St. Lawrence River without the consent of the owner 
on which the same is built. 

Sec. 63. FISH TAKEN BY ANGLING.— Except as permitted by this act, fish shall 
not be taken by any device except angling in any of the rivers, lakes and inland waters 
of this State. Sec. 140. "Angling" means taking fish by hook and line in hand or rod 
in hand; or if from a boat not exceeding two lines with or without rod to one person. 

Sec. 67. CARP BAIT.— No person shall put or place in the waters of Conesus Lake, 
Keuka Lake and Hemlock Lake, or in any waters inhabited by trout, any fish commonly 
known as carp, nor shall any person use such fish as bait in the Waters thereof. 

Sec. 67. TAKING FISH IN LAKE CHAMPLAIN.— No fish shall be taken through 
the ice in the waters of Lake Champlain less than five inches in length. If any fish 
less than five inches in length are taken, they shall be immediately returned to the water 
alive, and without unnecessary injury. 

Sec. 70. CERTAIN FISH NOT TO BE PLACED IN ADIRONDACKS.— Fish, or 
the fry, spawn or milt thereof, other than trout, lake trout and Adirondack frost fish, 
.shall not be placed in the waters of the Adirondack region except under the supervision 
of the Commission and pursuant to a resolution thereof. 

Sec. S2. CHAUTAUOUA COUNTY.— Muscallonge, black bass, or yellow bass shall 
not be fished for, taken or possessed in Chautauqua county from October 16th to June 
15th, both inclusive, unless by the state for the purpose of propagation. Muscallonge, 
black bass or yellow bass shall not be fished for, or taken from any of the water of 
Chautauqua county on any day after dark and before daylight. Muscallonge less than 

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twenty-four inches in length shall not be taken from any of the waters of such county, 
and if taken shall, without unavoidable injury, be returned at once to the waters from 
which taken. Bullheads may be fished for and taken through the ice with hook and line 
baited with angle-worms in any of the lakes of such county. 

Sec. 87. ST. LAWRENCE RIVER.— Subdivision 6 [as amended 1905]. Pickerel, pike 
and muskallonge shall not be taken in the St. Lawrence River below the city of Ogdens- 
burgh from January 1st to April 30th, both inclusive; nor elsewhere in such river from 
January 1st to June 9th, both inclusive. 

Sec. 89. NON-RESIDENTS.— On fresh water forming a part of the State boundaries 
or through which the State boundary runs, no non-resident of the State shall take any 
kind of fish or game in that part thereof within this State unless residents of this 
State may lawfully take the same kind of fish or game in such part of said waters as are 
not within the State, during the open season therefor in the State or country in which 
such waters are situated. If any license fee to take such fish or game in waters not in 
this State, be required of a resident of this State a non-resident may take the same 
kind of fish or game in such waters within this State, if a license so to do shall have 
been first obtained from the Commissioner. Nor shall any non-resident not the owner 
of real estate in this State and against whose real estate there are no delinquent taxes, 
take fish by spearing in this State except on a like license if there is any discrimination 
by requiring a license or otherwise in the State or country where such non-resident 
resides against residents of New York in taking fish in such State or country. Game 
shall not be taken by any such non-resident except pursuant to a license issued on 
payment of a fee not less in amount than the fee, if any, required of a resident of New 
York for taking game in the State or country where such non-resident resides, and if 
there be none, then on payment of such fee as the Commission shall prescribe. 

SUNDAY.— Penal Code, Sec. 265. All shooting, hunting, fishing upon the first day 
of the week is prohibited. 

Definitions and Construction, 

Sec. 140. DEFINITIONS.— The following words and phrases used in this act are de- 
fined as follows: 

1. "Grouse" includes ruffed grouse, partridge and every member of the grouse family. 

2. "Trout" includes speckled trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, red throat trout and 
brook trout. 

3. "Lake trout" for the purposes of this act includes landlock salmon and ouananische. 

4. "Black bass" includes Oswego bass. 

5. "Pike" for the purposes of this act includes wall-eyed pike. 

6. "Angling" means taking fish by hook and line in hand or rod in hand; or if from a 
boat not exceeding two lines with or without rod to one person. 

7. It is unlawful to take fish or game during time described as "close season." The 
"open season" is that part of the year when they may be feken in a lawful manner. 

8. "Taking" includes pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring 
and netting fish and game, and all lesser acts such as disturbing, harrying or worrying, 
or placing, setting, drawing, or using any net or other device commonly used to take 
fish and game, whether they result in taking or not; and includes every attempt to take 
and every act of assistance to every other person in taking or attempting to take fish 
or game. A person who counsels, aids or assists in a violation of any of the provisions 
of the forest, fish and game law, or knowingly shares in any of the proceeds of said 
violation by receiving or possessing either fish, birds, game or timber, shall be deemed 
to have incurred the penalties provided in this act against the person guilty of such 
violation. Whenever taking is allowed by law, reference is had to taking by lawful 
means and in lawful manner. 

Special Long Island Law. 

Sec. 100. APPLICATION OF ARTICLE.— This article applies only to the counties of 
Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk, and to Long Island Sound, and shall be con- 
strued with the general provisions of this act relating to fish and game. In case of 

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conflict the provisions in this article shall be substituted for the general provisions; but 
such parts of the general provisions as are not necessarily superseded shall apply. 

Sec. 101. DEER, DOGS.— Deer shall not be taken at any other time than between 
daylight and sunset on the first two Wednesdays and first two Fridays after the first 
Tuesday of November. Dogs may be had in the forest for use on those days. Except 
on those days possession of venison in the forests of Suffolk county between the first 
Wednesday after the' first Tuesday and midnight of the second Friday after the first 
Tuesday of November shall be presumptive evidence of a violation of this section. 
Possession of wild deer or venison between August 31st and the first Wednesday after 
the first Tuesday in November, and between the second Friday after the first Tuesday 
and the 20th of November, shall be conclusive evidence of a violation of this sectio*.. 
unless it appear that the same was lawfully killed within the State, or was killed without 
the State. 

Sec. 102. SQUIRRELS, HARES AND KAKBITS.— Black and gray squirrels, hares 
and rabbits shall not be taken or possessed from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, both inclusive, except 
that if lawfully taken they can be possessed in the city of New York during the open 
season therefor in this State at large. 

Sec. 103. WILD FOWL.— Ducks, geese, and swan shall not be taken from January 1st 
to September 30th, both inclusive, or possessed from March 1st to September 30th, both 
inclusive; except if lawfully taken, they can be possessed in the city of New York 
during the open season therefor; or taken in the night between sunset and daylight. 
Brant shall not be taken or possessed from May 1st to September 30th, both inclusive, 
or taken in the night between sunset and daylight. 

Sec. 104. WILDFOWLING METHODS.— Ducks, geese, brant and swan may be 
taken by aid of any floating device at any distance from shore in Long Island Sound, 
in Shinnecock, Gardiner and Peconic bays, and except from Sept. 30th to Oct. 19th, both 
inclusive, in Great South Bay, west of Smith's Point. Sailboats may be used in Long 
Island Sound, Gardiner and Peconic bays. 

Sec. 105. MEADOW HENS AND OTHER BIRDS [as amended 1901].— Meadow 
hens, mud hens, gallinule shall not be taken from Dec. 31 to Aug. 15, both inclusive. 

Sec. 106. WOODCOCK, GROUSE AND QUAIL.— Grouse and quail shall not be 
taken from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, both inclusive. Woodcock shall not be taken from Jan. 1 
to July 31, both inclusive. Such birds shall not be possessed in their close season except 
in the city of New York, where they may be possessed during the open season in the 
State at large. 

Seq. 108. PLOVER AND OTHER BIRDS.— Plover, curlew, jacksnipe, Wilson's, com- 
monly known as English snipe, yellow legs, killdeer, willet snipe, dowitcher, short-necks, 
rail, sandpiper, bay snipe, surf snipe, winter snipe, ring-necks and oxeyes shall not be 
tpken or possessed from January 1st to July 15th, both inclusive. 

Sec. 109. TROUT.— Trout shall not be taken or possessed from August 31st to the last 
Friday in March, both inclusive. Trout taken lawfully may be sold or possessed in the 
city of New York in the open season established by this section. 

Sec. 110. BLACK BASS.— Black bass shall not be taken from Jan. 1 to May 29, both 
inclusive. 

Sec. 111. LAKE TROUT.— Lake trout shall not be taken from Oct. 1 to March 31 both 
inclusive. 

Sec. 112. JAMAICA BAY AND ADJACENT WATERS.— Except as herein provided, 
fish shall not be taken, nor shall any attempt be made to take the same, by any device 
other than angling in the arm of the sea between Rockaway Point and Coney Island 
or any waters northerly of a line drawn from the extreme westerly point of Rockaway 
Point on the south side to the centennial tower of Coney Island, including Jamaica, 
Flatlands, Grassy and Sheepshead Bays and all other bays and inlets in or making 
out from said arm of the sea. Minnows or shrimp for bait may be taken by hand 
nets not more than forty feet long and four feet deep. No other nets shall l^e used in 
said waters. Angling shall always be lawful. Eels may be taken with a spear or eel-weir. 

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MASSACHUSETTS. 
Revised Laws, Chapter 92, as amended 1905. 

SUNDAY.— Sec. 1. The Lord's day shall be close season. Whoever hunts or destroys 
birds, wild animals or game of any kind on the Lord's day shall be liable to the penalty 
imposed. 

WOODCOCK, RUFFED GROUSE.— Sec. 2. Whoever takes, kills or has in posses- 
sion, or buys, sells or offers for sale, a woodcock or a ruffed grouse, commonly called 
partridge, between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of October following, or 
whoever at any time buys, sells, offers for sale or has in possession for sale a woodcock 
or ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, shall" be punished. 

L'UAIL.— Sec. 3. Whoever takes, kills or has in possession, or buys, sells or offers 
for sale a quail between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of November following, 
or, in the county of Bristol, between the 15th day of December and the 1st day of 
November following, whenever or wherever such bird may have been taken or killed, 
shall be punished by a fine of $-:o for each bird; but a person, firm or corporation 
dealing in game or engaged in the cold storage business may buy, sell or have in 
possession, and a person may buy from such person, firm or corporation, and have in 
possession if so bought, quail from the 1st day of December to the 1st day of May, except 
that, in the county of Bristol, this period shall be from the 15th day of December to the 
1st day of May, if such quail were not taken or killed in the Commonwealth contrary to 
the provisions of this chapter; and a person, firm or corporation dealing in game or en- 
gaged in the cold storage business inay have quail in possession on cold storage at any 
season, if such quail were not taken or killed in this Commonwealth contrary to the pro- 
visions of this chapter: Brovided, however, That any person, firm or corporation holding a 
permit from the commissioners on fisheries and game may sell or have in possession 
live quail for purposes of propagation within the Commonwealth. [Protected in Nan- 
tucket to 1908.] 

DUCKS, PINNATED GROUSE.— Sec. 4. Whoever kills a pinnated grouse at any 
time, or a wood or summer duck, black duck or teal between the 1st day of March and 
the 1st day of September following, or any other of the so-called duck species between 
the 20th day of May and the 1st day of September, shall be punished by a fine. 

SHORE, MARSH, BEACH BIRDS, UPLAND PLOVER, PIGEON, DOVE.— Sec. 
5. Whoever takes or kills a plover, snipe, sandpiper, rail or any of the so-called shore, 
marsh or beach birds between the 1st day of March and the 15th day of July, a 
Bartramian sandpiper, also called upland plover, before July 15th, 1910, a wild or pas- 
senger pigeon, a Carolina or mourning dove, a gull or tern at any time, shall be 
punished by a fine of $10 for every bird so taken or killed; but the provisions of this 
section shall not apply to the great American herring gull nor to the great black- 
backed gull between the 1st day of November and the 1st day of May following. 

INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS, EGGS, ETC.— Sec. 7. Whoever takes or kills a wild 
or undomesticated bird not named in Sections 2, 3, 4 and 5, except English sparrows, 
crow blackbirds, crows, jays, birds of prey, wild geese and fresh-water and sea fowl not 
named in said sections, or willfully destroys, disturbs or takes a nest or eggs of any wild 
or undomesticated birds, except such as are not protected by the provisions of this 
section, shall be punished by a fine. [Permit may be had from the Commissioners to 
collect for science.] 

SQUIRRELS, HARES, RABBITS.— Sec. 9. Whoever takes or kills a gray squirrel, 
hare or rabbit between the 1st day of March and the 1st day of October shall be pun- 
ished. 

TRAPS, SNARES, FERRETS, ETC.— Sec. 11. Whoever takes or kills a game bird 
or water fowl, hare or rabbit by means of a trap, net or snare, or by the use of a ferret; 
and whoever, for the purpose of taking or killing a game bird, water fowl, hare or rab- 
bit, constructs or sets a trap, snare or net or uses a ferret; and whoever shoots at or 
kills any wild fowl or any of the so-called shore, marsh or beach birds with a swivel or 

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pivot gun or by the use of a torch, jack or artificial light, or pursues any wild fowl 
with or by aid of a boat propelled by steam or naphtha, or of a boat or vessel propelled 
by any mechanical means other than sails, oars or paddles, or in that portion of Boston 
Allerton, including the waters of Dorchester Bay, Quincy Bay, Weymouth Bay and 
Hingham Bay, shoots at, kills or pursues a wild fowl from or by the aid or use of any 
boat or floating device propelled by steam, naphtha, gasoline, electricity, compressed 
air, or any similar motive power, shall be punished. Sec. 12. The provisions of the pre- 
ceding section shall not apply to the trapping or snaring of ruffed grouse or hares or 
rabbits upon his land by an owner of land, or by a member of his family between the 
1st day of October and the 1st day of December. 

DUKES COUNTY VVILDI'-OWL.— Chap. :i73, l^aws 1905.— Sec. 1. It shall be un- 
lawful in the county of Dukes county for any person to shoot or kill wild ducks or 
geese in any fresh water pond from a boat, raft or other device located at a greater 
distance than fifty yards from the shore. 

PLYMOUTH BAY.— Sec. 13. Whoever in Plymouth Harbor or Bay, including the 
waters adjacent to the towns of Plymouth, Kingston and Duxbury, kills a black duck, 
goose, brant or other aquatic bird by the use of a sneak boat, raft, floating box or 
similar device, not an ordinary dory or rowboat, or by the use of a pivot gun or 
swivel gun or any other firearm not usually held and discharged from the shoulder shall 
be punished. 

PHEASANT.— Sec. 16. Whoever, prior to the open season for partridge and quail 
in the year 1907, takes, kills or has in possession, except for the purpose of propagation, 
a Mongolian, English or golden pheasant shall be punished by a fine of $20 for each bird. 

DEER.— Sec. 17. Whoever, before the 1st day of November, in the year 1908, hunts, 
chases, wounds, injures, or kills or has in possession a deer killed in Massachusetts, 
except his own tame deer kept on his own grounds, shall forfeit $100 for each offence: 
Provided, however, That nothing contained herein shall prevent an owner or occupant 
of cultivated land from driving a deer therefrom, but dogs shall not be used for this 
purpose, nor shall the deer be wounded or injured. Sec. IS. The owner or keeper of a 
dog found chasing or hunting deer at any time may be punished by a fine of not more 
than $20. Any of the commissioners on fisheries and game, or their depvities, or any 
members of the district police, or any officer qualified to serve criminal process, may kill 
a dog found chasing or hunting deer at any time if the dog is used for such purpose 
with the knowledge and consent of such owner or keeper. 

EXPORT. — Sec. 21. Whoever at any time takes or sends or causes to be taken or 
transported beyond the limits of the commonwealth a woodcock, quail or ruffed grouse 
which has been taken or killed within the commonwealth, or has in possession such 
bird or brrds with intent to take or cause the same to be taken out of the common* 
wealth, shall be punished. 

BRISTOL COUNTY.— [Close seasons are: Gray squirrel, Dec. 15 to Nov. 1. Rabbit, 
hare, March 11 to Nov. 1. Quail, woodcock, ruffed grouse, partridge, Dec. 15 to Nov. 1.] 

HERON. BITTERN.— Act 1904. Chap. 244.— Sec. 1. Whoever kills any heron or 
bittern, or has in possession any such bird or part thereof, whenever or wherever 
taken, shall be punished by a fine. [Sec. 2. Owners of trout ponds may kill heron or 
bitterns destroying fish.] 

UNNATURALIZED ALIENS, LICENSE.— Chap. 317, Laws 1905.— Sec. 1. It shall 
be unlawful for any unnaturalized, foreign born person to hunt anywhere within the 
limits of the Commonwealth, unless he is licensed so to do as hereinafter provided. Sec. 
2. City and town clerks shall, upon the application of any unnaturalized, foreign born 
person who is a resident of the city or town in which the application is made, and upon 
the payment of a fee of $15, issue to such person a license, authorizing the said liceosee 
to hunt and to kill game on any lands in which such hunting or killing is not forbidden 
by law or by written or printed notices posted thereon by the owner, lessee or occupant 
thereof. 

SALMON.— Chap. 138, Laws 1902.— Sec. 58. Whoever takes a salmon between the 

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1st day of August and the 1st day of May, shall forfeit not less than ten nor more than 
fifty dollars for each ofYense; and whoever at any time has in his possession a young 
salmon less than one foot in length shall forfeit five dollars for every such salmon. 

TROUT.— Sec. 62. Whoever takes a trout, land-locked salmon, or lake trout between the 1st 
day of September and the 1st day of April, or in the counties of Berkshire, Franklin, Hamp- 
den and Hampshire, between the 15th day of July and the 15th day of April, shall forfeit 
not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars. Sec. 64. Whoever at any time 
takes or has in possession trout less than six inches in length shall forfeit ten dollars 
for each such trout; but the provisions of this section shall not apply to any person 
who, upon taking such trout, immediately returns it alive to the water from which it was 
taken. [Chap. 205, Laws 1903. Wild trout may not be sold at any time.] 

PICKEREL.— Sec. 67. Whoever takes from the waters of this comminwealth a pickerel 
less than ten inches in length shall forfeit one dollar for each pickerel so taken. Chap. 
417, Laws 1905.— Sec. 1. A town may by a by-law duly enacted and approved as required 
by law forbid the taking or catching of pickerel in any river, stream or pond therein in 
any other manner than by naturally or artificially baited hook and hand line, and may 
provide a suitable penalty for the violation of such by-law. 

BLACK BASS.— Sec. 70. Whoever takes a black bass less than eight inches in length 
sha'l forfeit ten dollars for each fish so taken. 

SMELTS.— Sec. 71. Whoever, between the 15th day of March and the 1st day of 
June has in his possession a smelt taken between said dates in this commonwealth, shall 
forfeit one dollar for every such smelt. Sec. 72. Whoever takes a smelt in any other 
manner than by naturally or artificially baited hook and hand line shall forfeit one 
dollar for each smelt so taken. 

FISHWAYS.— [Fishing within 200 yards of a fishway on the Connecticut, or 400 yards 
of a fishway on the Merrimack, is forbidden.] 

TACKLE.— Act 1904, Chap. 308.— Sec. 26. Whoever sets or uses more than ten hooks 
for fishing in any pond, or aids in so doing, shall be punished. 

SHINERS FOR BAIT.— Sec. During October and November any person may, for 
the purpose of taking shiners for bait, draw a net or seine at any point in the Merrimac 
and Connecticut rivers and their tributaries, except within 400 yards of any fishway; 
and if any other fish so caught are immediately returned alive to the waters from which 
they were taken, the penalties prescribed shall not apply to the taking of such fish. 




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ILLINOIS. 
Act of April 28, 1903, as amended 1905. 

CLOSE SEASONS.-Act of April 2S, 1903.— Sec. 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful 
to kill or have in possession any quail between the 20th day of December and the 10th 
day of November; or any ruffed grouse (partridge), or pinnated grouse (prairie chicken), 
for a period of four years from the date of the passage of this act; or any woodcock 
or mourning dove between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of August; or any 
grey, red, fox or black squirrel between the 31st day of December and the 1st day of 
July; or any jack snipe, Wilson's snipe, sand snipe or any kind of snipe, or any 
golden plover, upland plover or any kind of plover between the 1st day of May and the 
1st day of September. And it shall be unlawful to kill any wild goose, duck, brant or 
other water fowl at any time between the 15th day of April and the 1st day of September. 
And it shall be unlawful to kill any wild goose, duck, brant, rail or other water fowl 
between the sunset of any day and the sunrise of the next succeeding day at any period 
of the year. And it shall be further unlawful at any time to kill any wild goose, brant, 
auck or any other water fowl from any fixed or artificial ambush beyond the lines of 
natural covering of reeds, canes, willows, flags, crooked brush, wild rice or other vegeta- 
tion above the water of any lake, river, bay or inlet, or other water course wholly within 
the State, or with the aid of any sneak boat, sink box or other device for the purpose 
of concealment in the open waters of this State. And it shall further be unlawful to 
shoot any wild goose, duck, brant or other water fowl with a swivel gun, or from any 
sail boat, gasolene or electric launch or steam boat, at any time in any part of the water of 
any lake, river, bay or inlet or other water covirse wholly within this State: Provided, 
That it shall be unlawful to kill any of the ducks, geese or brant mentioned in this 
section at any time for market or other commercial purposes, nor more than thirty-five 
by one person in one day. 

SALE, EXPORT.— Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful at any time to sell any quail, pinnated 
grouse, or prairie chicken, wild duck, goose, or brant, ruffed grouse or partridge, 
grey, red fox, or black squirrel or wild turkey that shall have been killed within the 
limits of this State. It shall be unlawful for any person to transport any quail, pinnated 
grouse, or prairie chicken, rutled grouse or partridge, squirrel, duck, goose, brant or 
wild turkey to any place outside of this State for any purpose, except such person have 
a license from the State to do so. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 3. Any person who shall kill or catch or have in posses- 
sion, living or dead, any wild bird or part of bird other than a game bird, English 
sparrow, crow, crow-blackbird or chicken hawk, shall be subject to a fine; Provided. 
That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the owner or occupant of lands 
from destroying any such birds or animals when deemed neccessary by him for the 
protection of fruits or property. For the purpose of this act the following only shall 
be considered game birds: The Anatidse, commonly known as swans, geese, brant 
and river and sea ducks; the Railing, commonly known as rails, and Gallinules and 
Limicolae, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock and 
pipers, tatlers and curlews; the Gallinre, commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, 
prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges, quails and mourning doves. 

DEER AND IMPORTED BIRDS.— Sec. 10.— That it shall be unlawful for the period 
of ten years from the passing of this act to kill or have in possession, except for breed- 
ing purposes, any wild buck, doe or fawn; and for five years any wild turkey, ring-neck, 
Mongolian pheasant, any green Japanese pheasant, English pheasant, any copper 
pheasant or scholmeringen, any trogapan pheasant, silver pheasant or golden pheasant, 
any cacabis and chucker partridge, any sand grouse, and black Indian partridge; Pro- 
vided, That cock pheasant may be killed and sold from the 1st day of November to the 
31st day of December, inclusive, of each and every year, by the breeders thereof, upon 
a permit issued to them by the State Game Commissioner. 

GAME AND BIRDS ARE PROPERTY OF STATE.-Sec. 11. The ownership of 
and the title to all wild game and birds in the State of Illinois is hereby declared to be 

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in the State, and no wild game or birds shall be taken or killed in any manner or at 
any time except the person so taking or killing shall consent that the title to said game 
shall be and remain in the State of Illinois for the purpose of regulating the use and 
disposition of the same after such taking or killing. The taking or killing of wild game 
or birds at any time or in any manner or by any person shall be deemed a consent of 
said person that the title to such game or birds shall be and remain in the State, for 
said purpose of regulating the use and disposition of the same. 

SHOOTING LICENSES, BAG LIMIT.— Sec. 25. No person shall at any time hunt 
or kill, with gun, rabbits or any of the wild animais, fowl or birds that are protected 
during any part of the year, without first having procured a license so to do. Said license 
shall be procured from any county, city or village clerk. The applicant shall fill out 
a blank application to be furnished by the State Game Commissioner through the clerk 
of each county, city or village; and said applicant, if a non-resident of the State, shall 
pay to the county clerk the sum of $15 as a license fee, together with the sum of 5U 
cents as the fee of said county clerk; and if a resident of the State, shall pay to the 
county, city or village clerk, the sum of 75 cents as a license fee. Such licensee, if a 
non-resident, is hereby authorized to take from the State fifty birds of all kinds, killed by 
himself or herself, which shall be carried openly for inspection, together with his or 
her license. The number of game birds that may be killed in any one day by one 
person is hereby limited to thirty-five ducks and twenty-five game birds of any other 
one kind, except prairie chicken. No person to whom a license has been issued shall 
be entitled to hunt, pursue or kill game or rabbits without at the time he or she shall 
have such license in possession, ready to exhibit the same for inspection, and such 
license shall be void after the 1st day of June next succeeding its issuance: Provided, 
That the owner or owners of farm lands, their children or tenants shall have the right 
to hunt and kill game on the farm lands of which he or they are the bona fide owners 
or tenants, during the season when it is lawful to kill game, without procuring such 
resident license. 

TRESPASS WITHOUT PERMISSION.— Sec. 28. It shall be unlawful for any per- 
son to hunt with gun or dog within or upon the grounds or lands of another without 
first obtaining from the owner, agent or occupant of such lands or grounds permission 
so to do. 

UNLAWFUL TO USE A FERRET.— Sec. 31. No person shall at any time use any 
ferret for the purpose of hunting, capturing or killing any game, animals or rabbits. 

FISHING.— Act of May 31. 1887.— Sec. 1. That no person shall place or cause to be 
placed or erected any seine, weir, net, fish dam or other obstruction in or across any of 
the rivers, creeks, streams, ponds, lakes, sloughs, bayous, or other water or water-courses 
in such manner as shall obstruct the free passage of fish; and it shall be unlawful to take 
fish, except minnows for bait, with any device other than a hook and line, within one- 
half mile of any dam; it shall be unlawful to kill any fish by use of line, spear, acid, 
medicinal or chemical compound or explosive; it shall be unlawful to catch any fish in or 
upon any lakes, while such lakes are covered with ice, with any device or means from the 
1st day of December to the 1st day of March in each and every year. [No other pro- 
visions as to season.] 

FISHING NEAR DAM.— Act approved June 11, 1897.— Sec. 17 [as amended 1901]. 
It is hereby declared to be unlawful to kill, catch or take in any of the rivers, creeks 
ponds, lakes, sloughs, bayous or other water-courses, any fish for any purpose, within 
four hundred feet below any dam, between April 15 and June 15. Sec. 18. It shall be 
unlawful to kill by any means whatsoever, except by hook and line, black bass, pike, 
pickerel or wall eyed pike, commonly known as jack or yellow salmon, at any time. 
Sec. 19. It shall be unlawful at any time to span or stretch over or in the waters 
of any inland lake any trout line or any set line, or to place any pole or poles with hooks 
and lines attached, fastened or stuck in the bottom of such inland lake. 



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CONNECTICUT. 

WILD FOWL.— General Statutes.— Sec. 3120 [as amended 1903]. The close season for 
web-footed wild fowl shall be from May 1st to August 31st, both inclusive. Sec. 3121. 
Web-footed wild fowl shall not be taken except with a gun fired at arm's length without 
rest. They shall not be fired at from a boat propelled otherwise than by hand. They 
shall not be taken in the night season from an hour after sunset until an hour be- 
fore sunrise. Wild fowl taken in violation of the law shall not be brought ashore, sold 
or possessed. 

SHORE BIRDS.-Sec. 3126 [as amended 1903]. The close season for plover, rail, galli- 
nules, and mudhen shall be from April 1st to August 31st, both inclusive, and for 
Wilson's snipe, called English snipe, and bay snipe, from May 1st to July 31st, both in- 
clusive. No person shall kill more than fifty snipe, plover, shore birds, or rail in any 
one day. 

MINK, OTTER.— File No. 64, Laws 190.5.- Sec. 1. The close season for mink and 
otter shall be from April 1st to October 31st, both inclusive. No person shall shoot, 
kill, trap, or take any mink or otter during the close season, except on the land of the 
person taking the same when said mink or otter is destructive to the poultry or other 
property of such person. 

Fish and Game Law of 1902. 

DEER, SQUIRREL, HARE, RABBIT.— Sec. 2. The close season for deer shall be 
from June 1st, 1901 to June 1st, 1911. Sec. 4. The close season for gray squirrels 
shall be from December 1st to September 30th, both inclusive. Sec. 5. The close season 
for wild hare and rabbits shall be from January 1st to September 30th, both inclusive. 
Sec. 6. No person shall use fire, gunpowder, dynamite, or other explosive compound, 
brimstone, or sulphur for the purpose of taking any gray squirrel or rabbit from a 
burrow, hole, or tree: Provided, That nothing in this section shall impair the right as it 
now exists to shoot any gray squirrel or rabbit. Sec. 7. No person shall make use of a 
ferret for the purpose of taking or destroying rabbits between October 1st, 1901, and 
October 15th, 1905. 

QUAIL, WOODCOCK, PARTRIDGE, RUFFED GROUSE.— Sec. U. The close 
season for quail shall be from December 1st to September 30th, both inclusive. Sec. 12. 
The close season for woodcock shall be from December 1st to September 30th, both 
inclusive. Sec. 13. The close season for partridge, or ruffed grouse, shall be from 
December 1st to September 30th, both inclusive. Sec. 14. No person shall kill and no 
person shall have in his possession more than five partridges, or ruffed grouse, in any 
one day, or thirty-six in any one year. Sec. 15. Quail, woodcock, and partridge shall not 
be taken, sold, or possessed during the close season. Sec. 16. Quail, woodcock, and 
partridge, or ruffed grouse, shall not be transported in this State except when accom- 
panied by the actual owner, and no person shall transport or accompany, within the 
limits of this State, more than thirty-six partridges, or ruffed grouse, in any calendar 
year. No person shall at any time kill any quail, woodcock, partridge, or ruffed grouse, 
for the purpose of transporting the same beyond the limits of this State; or transport 
any such birds in any package, unless the kind and number of such birds shall be 
plainly marked on the outside of said package; or shall transport or have in his possession, 
with intent to procure the transportation beyond said limits, any of such birds killed 
within this State. 

PHEASANTS.— Sec. 18. The close season for Mongolian, Chinese, and English 
pheasants shall be from June 1st, 1901 to June 1st, 1906. 

SNARES.— Sec. 21. No bird for which a close season is provided shall be trapped, net- 
ted, or snared. No net, trap, or snare, or similar device capable of taking partridge or 
ruffed grouse or quail, shall be set, placed, or used where such birds can be taken. Any 
such net, trap, snare, or similar device, may be destroyed by any person. 

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KEEPING BIRDS AND FOWLS TO BE SHOT AT.-Sec. 22. No person shall 
keep any bird or fowl of any kind for the purpose of having it shot at for sport, gain, 
the trial of skill of marksmen, or other purpose; or shall let loose or suffer to escape 
from any restraint, or expose any bird or fowl to be shot at for sport, gain, trial of skill, 
or other purpose, or at any shooting match, or shall shoot at any bird, or fowl, exposed 
to be shot as aforesaid. 

SUNDAY.— Sec. 23. No person shall on Sunday shoot or hunt or have in possession 
in the open air the implements for shooting, 

TROUT.— Sec. 26. The close season for trout, other than lake trout, shall be from 
July 1st to March 31st, both inclusive. Sec. 27. Trout less than six inches in length shall 
not be taken or possessed, and if taken, shall, without avoidable injury, be immediately 
returned to the waters where taken. Sec. 28. No person shall take more than thirty 
brook trout or brown trout in one day. Sec. 29. Brook trout, brown trout, rainbow 
trout, loch leven, and lake trout shall not be fished for nor taken by any device except 
fishing or angling with hook and line, the line attached to a rod held in hand, or the 
line itself held in hand. Sec. 32. Trout shall not be transported in this State except 
when accompanied by the actual owner. No person shall transport or accompany, at 
any one time, more than ten pounds of trout. 

LAKE TROUT.— Sec. 33. The close season for lake trout shall be from October 1st 
to April 30th, both inclusive. Lake trout less than ten inches in length shall not be 
intentionally taken or possessed, and if taken, shall, without avoidable injury, be returned 
to the waters where taken. 

BASS, PICKEREL, PIKE.— Sec. 34. The close season for black bass shall be from 
May 1st to June 30th, both inclusive. Black bass less than six inches in length shall not 
be taken, or possessed, and if taken, shall, without avoidable injury, be immediately 
returned to the waters where taken. Sec. 35. Black bass shall not be fished for or taken 
by any device except fishing or angling with hook and line, the line attached to a rod held 
in hand, or the line itself held in hand. Sec. 37. The close season for pickerel or 
wall-eyed pike shall be from March 1st to April 30th, both inclusive. Sec. 39. Pickerel 
or wall-eyed pike less than twelve inches in length shall not be taken or possessed, and 
if taken, shall, without avoidable injury, be immediately returned to the waters where 
taken. Sec. 40. Striped bass less than eight inches in length shall not be intentionally 
taken at any time. . 

SET LINES, NETS, SPEAR.— Sec. 45. No person shall leave or use any set line or 
float of any kind, other than a float attached to a line held in hand, or to a line attached 
to a rod held in hand, in the waters of any pond or lake of this State, except in private 
ponds or tide-water ponds, between Aprist 1st and December 1st next following. 
Sec. 46. No person shall draw, set, or use any seine, pound, gill, or set-net in any pond 
or lake in this State; Provided, That seines or nets may be used for taking minnows for 
bait, except in brooks and streams inhabited by trout. No person shall take, or assist 
in taking, or attempt to take any fish from the waters of this State by the use of a spear; 
Provided, That this section shall not apply to taking dog fish, eels, or suckers. 

DEFINITIONS.— Sec. 110. The following words and phrases used in this act are 
defined as follows: "Grouse" includes rufled grouse, partridge, and every member of the 
grouse family. "Trout" includes speckled trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, red throat 
trout, and brook trout. "Lake trout" for the purpose of this act includes land-locked 
salmon and ouananiche. "Black bass" includes Oswego bass. "Angling" means taking 
fish by hook and line in hand or rod in hand. It shall be unlawful to take fish or game 
during the time described as "close season." "Taking" includes pursuing, shooting, 
hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, and netting fish and game, and all lesser 
acts such as disturbing, harrying, or worrying, whether they result in taking or not; and 
includes every attempt to take and every act of assistance to every other person in taking 
or attempting to take fish or game. Whenever taking is allowed by law, reference is had 
to taking by lawful means, and in a lawful manner. 

LOCAL FISHING LA^^•S prohibit fishing in certain waters. 

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CALIFORNIA. 
Penal Code as revised 1905. 

ELK.— Sec. 599. Every person who wilfully kills any elk within this State is guilty of 
a felony. 

BIRDS.— Sec. 62G. Every person, who, between the 15th day of February and the 
15th day of October, kills, or has in his possession, whether taken or killed in the 
State of California, or shipped into the State, any valley quail, or partridge, or any kind 
of wild duck, or any rail, or any curlew, ibis, plover, or other shore birds {Limicolce) ; or 
who, between the 1st day of April and the 15th day of October, kills, or has in his 
jiossession, any [Wilson] snipe; or who, between the 15th day of February and the 1st 
day of September, kills, or has in his possession, whether taken or killed in the State 
of California, or shipped into the State, any mountain quail, grouse, or sage hen, is guilty 
of a misdemeanor. Sec. 626a. Every person who, between the 15th day of February and 
the 1st day of July of the same year, kills or has in his possession, any dove, is guilty 
of a misdemeanor. Sec. 626c. Every person who kills, or has in his possession, any 
swan, or any pheasant, or any bob-white quail, or any variety of imported quail or 
partridge, is guilty of a misdemeanor. • Sec. 626(i. Every person who, during any one 
calendar day kills, or has in his possession, more than twenty-five quail, partridge, 
doves, snipe, curlew, ibis, plover, rail, or any other shore birds {Limicolcc), or more than 
fifty wild ducks, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

DEER.— Sec. 626/^. Every person who, between the 15th day of October and the 1st 
day of August of the following year, kills, or has in his possession, whether taken or 
killed in the State of California, or shipped into the State, any male deer, or any deer 
meat, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 626r. Every person who kills, or has in his 
possession, whether taken or killed in the State of California, or shipped into the State, 
more than two deer, during any one open season, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 626/. 
Every person who allows any dog to run, track or trail any deer during the time when 
it is unlawful to kill the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

SQUIRREL.— Sec. 626g. Every person who kills, or has in his possession, any 
species of tree squirrel, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

SALE.— Sec. 626A'. Every person who buys, sells, offers or exposes for sale, barter or 
trade, any quail, partridge, dove, pheasant, grouse, sage hen, rail, ibis, plover or any 
snipe or other shore bird (.Limicolce), or any deer meat, whether taken or killed in the 
State of California, or shipped into the State from any other State, Territory, or foreign 
country, is guilty of a misdemeanor. , 

SCIENTIFIC PURPOSE, PROPAGATION.— Sec. 6261. Nothing in this act shall be 
held to prohibit possession for scientific purposes, or taking alive for propagation: 
Provided, permission shall have been obtained from the game commissioner or the fish 
commissioners. 

NIGHT.— Sec. 626m. Every person who at any time between one-half hour after 
sundown and one-half hour before sunrise of the following day, hunts, pursues, takes, 
kills or destroys, any of the birds mentioned in this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Sec. 15. Section 627 of said code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 627. Every 
person who upon any inclosed or cultivated grounds, which is private property, and where 
signs are displayed not less than three to the mile, along all exterior boundaries thereof, 
forbidding such shooting or hunting, hunts, pursues, takes, kills or destroys, any quail, 
partridge, pheasant, grouse, dove, wild duck, snipe, curlew, ibis or plover, or any deer, 
without permission first obtained from the owner or person in possession of such ground, 
or who maliciously tears down, mutilates or destroys any sign, signboard or other notice 
forbidding shooting on private property, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

TRESPASS.— Sec. 627. Every person who upon any inclosed or cultivated grounds, 
which is private property, and where signs are displayed, along all exterior boundaries 
thereof, forbidding such shooting or hunting, hunts, pursues, takes, kills or destroys any 
quail, partridge, pheasant, grouse, dove, wild duck, snipe, curlew, ibis, or plover, or 
any deer, without permission first obtained from the owner or person in possession of such 

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ground, or who maliciously tears down, mutilates or destroys any sign, signboard or other 
notice forbidding shooting on private property, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

EXPORT. — Sec. 627a. Every person who transports out of this State any deer, deer 
skin, buck, doe or fawn, or any quail, partridge, pheasant, grouse, or sage hen or 
prairie chicken, dove, wild pigeon, or any wild duck, rail, snipe, ibis, curlew, plover, or 
other shore birds {Limicolo!) except for the purpose of propagation or scientific purposes, 
under a permit, in writing, first obtained from the board of fish commissioners of the 
State of California, or who takes from the State the carcass of any such animal or bird, 
is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

TRANSPORTATION.— Sec. 627&. Every person who ships, or receives for shipment, 
or transporation, from any one person during any ope calendar day, more than twenty- 
five quail, partridge, pheasant, grouse, or sage hen, doves, rail, snipe, curlew, ibis, 
plover, or other shore birds {Limicolo:), or more than fifty wild ducks, or who transports 
any of the said birds, or any deer, in any quanity, unless such birds or deer are at all 
times in open view, and labeled with the name and residence of the person by whom they 
are shipped, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 637a. Every person who shall at any tirhe kill, or have in 
his possession, except upon a written permit from the board of fish commissioners of 
the State of California, for the purpose of propagation or for education or scientific pur- 
poses, any meadow lark, or any wild bird, living or dead, or any part of any dead wild 
bird, or who shall rob the nest, or take, the eggs of any meadow lark or of any wild bird, 
is guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided, That nothing in this section shall prohibit the 
killing of a meadow lark or other wild bird by the owner or tenant of any premises 
where such bird is found destroying berries, fruit or crops growing on such premises, 
but the birds so killed shall not be shipped or sold. The English sparrow, sharp-shinned 
hawk. Cooper's hawk, duck hawk, great horned owl, bluejay, house finch (known also as 
the California linnet), and all birds otherwise protected by the provisions of this code 
and those birds commonly known as game birds, are not included among the birds pro- 
tected by this section. 

BASS.— Sec. 628. Every person who between the 1st day of January and the 1st day 
of July of each year catches or has in his possession any black bass; or who, at any 
time takes or has in his possession any striped bass of less than three pounds in weight; 
or who catches any fish from any pond or reservoir belonging to or controlled by the 
Board of Fish Commissioners, or any person or corporation, without the consent of the 
owners thereof, which pond or reservoir has been stocked with fish; or who, except 
with hook and line, takes, catches, or kills any black bass whatsoever, or any kind of 
fish, from any river or stream upon which the State or United States fish hatchery is 
maintained, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

TROUT. — Sec. 632. Every person who, between the 1st day of November in any year 
and the 1st day of April of the year following, catches or has in his possession, any 
variety of trout, except steelhead trout {Salmo gairdneri) ; or who, between the 1st day of 
February and the 1st day of April; or, between the 10th day of September and the 16th 
day of October each year, catches, or has in his possession, any steelhead trout (Salmo 
gairdneri) ; or who, between the 1st day of November and the 1st day of April of the 
year following, catches any steelhead trout above tide water; or who, at any time, buys, 
sells, or offers for sale, any trout of less than one-half pound weight, or takes or catches 
any trout except with hook and line, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

SALMON.— Sec. 634. Every person who, between the 10th day of September and the 
16th day of October, takes any salmon, every person who, between the 15th day of 
October and the 15th day of November, takes any salmon above tidewater, is guilty 



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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— NEBRASKA. 



NEBRASKA. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS.— Act of 1901.— Article II.— Sec. 1. No person shall at any 
time of the year, or in any manner, pursue, tike, wound or kill any elk, deer, antelope 
or beaver, or any of the following wild birds, viz.: Turkey, prairie chicken, sage chicken, 
grouse, quail, pheasant, partridge, '^tarmigan, duck, goose, brant, swan, crane, waterfowl, 
wild pigeon, dove, snipes, or cuncw, or any song, insectivorous or other bird, or any 
trout, white fish, grayling, sunfish, bass, catfish, wall-eyed pike, pickerel, croppie, of 
other food fish, ship or sell, offer or expose for sale or have the same in possession, except 
as permitted by this act. 

SHOOTING FROM HIGHWAY, TRESPASS.-Sec. 2. No person shall shoot on or 
from a public highway at any game, song, insectivorous or other bird or fish, or hunt 
game on any land not public land, without the consent of the owner or persons in charge 
of the same, nor fish or hunt in any private park, lake or preserve without the consent of 
the proprietor. 

SONG, INSECTIVOROUS AND OTHER BIRDS.-Sec. 3A. It shall be unlawful to 
kill, injure or harm any robin, lark, thrush, blue bird, king bird, wren, jay, swallow, 
oriole, wood pecker, yellow hammer, cuckoo, yellow bird, bobolink, or other bird or birds 
of like nature that promote agriculture and horticulture by feeding on noxious worms 
and insects, or that are attractive in appearance or cheerful in song: Provided, Hawks 
and owls may be killed on one's own premises. 

OPEN SEASONS.— Sec. 4. It shall be lawful to kill, during the open season therefor, 
in the manner, of the kind, for the purpose and to the number and extent in this section 
provided, and not otherwise, the following fish and game, song, insectivorous and other 
birds, and the open season therefor in each year shall begin and end as follows: 

1. The open season for deer having horns, and antelopes having horns, shall be- 
gin August 15th and end November 15th next ensuing. Wolves, coyotes, foxes, 
wild cats, skunks and rabbits may be killed at any time of the year. It is unlawful 
to kill or have in possession any red fox or gray timber squirrels at any time. 

2. The open season for prairie chickens, sage chickens and grouse shall begin 
September 1st and end November 3Uth, and the open season for quail shall begin 
November 15th and end November 3(Jth. 

3. The open season for wild ducks, geese, brants, cranes and game water fowls 
shall begin September 1st and end April 15th next ensuing. The open season on 
jack snipe, Wilson snipe, and yellow legs shall begin September 1st and end May 
15th next ensuing. 

4. The open season for wild pigeons, doves and plover shall begin July 1st and 
end August 1st. It is unlawful to kill any Mongolian pheasant, Chinese pheasant 
or other imported game birds at any season of the year. 

5. The open season for trout not less than eight inches in length shall begin 
April 1st and end October 1st. The open season for bass not less than eight inches 
in length shall begin April 1st and end October 30th. 'Ihe open season for all 
other fish shall begin April 1st and end November 15th. 

l^AWFUL NUMBER.— 6. Except as otherwise provided by this act, the right given 
by this section to take or kill game and fish is limited to food purposes, and to ten wild 
geese or brants and twenty-five game birds of any other variety and twenty-five fish for 
each person in any one calendar day, and no person shall take, kill or have in possession 
in any one season more than one deer and one antelope; or instead of one deer and one 
antelope, he may eitlieV have two deer or two antelope; nor shall any person have in 
possession at any time more than ten wild geese or brants, fifty ducks and fifty other 
birds, nor more than fifty fish: Provided, That during the month of September it shall 
be unlawful for to kill or have in possession more than ten prairie chickens in any one 
day. 

POSSESSION IN CLOSE TIME.— 7. No game or fish shall be held in possession by 
any person for more than five days after the close of the season for killing the same, except 
as in this act otherwise provided. 

LAWFUL METHODS.— 8. No game shall be pursued, taken, wounded or killed in the 
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night, nor with a steel or hard pointed bullet, nor with any weapon other than an ordi- 
nary shoulder gun or pistol, nor shall any fish be taken or killed except in the ordinary 
manner with a line and rod, and the hook or hooks baited with natural or artificial bait; 
and fishing with lines having more than five hooks thereon, shall not be deemed the 
ordinary manner of fishing; nor shall any person fish within two hundred feet of any 
fishway: Provided, That dogs, blinds and decoys may be used for hunting birds. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 8. It is unlawful for any person holding a non-resident license to 
take out of the State more than fifty birds or twenty-five fish in any one year: Provided, 
That this section shall be construed to mean that when fifty birds and twenty-five fish of 
any kind or variety have been taken from the State by the holder of a non-resident 
license further right to take any kind of birds or fish by the holder of said license shall 
cease. No transportation company or common carrier shall receive for transportation or 
shipment out of the State any birds, fowls or animals protected by the laws of the State, 
except when the same shall be in the personal possession of or carried as baggage or 
express by the owners thereof, and such owner shall have in his possession at the time 
of such taking out of the State a non-resident license duly issued to him under the pro- 
visions of law, and the number and kind of birds and fish so carried out of the State 
should be indorsed on the license of person entitled to take them out, and said person 
shall accompany the said birds, fowls or anim.als on the same train or other conveyance 
of the common carrier beyond the borders of the State. Sec. 9. It is unlawful for any 
person a resident of this State to ship or take within or without this State any birds, fowls 
or animals protected by the laws of this State, except when accompanied by the same and 
in his possession on the same train, as provided for in this act. Sec. 10. It is hereby re- 
quired that any and all packages containing fish or game shall be labeled in plain letters 
on the address side of the package, so as to disclose the fact that said package contains 
fish or game, and the amount of said fish or game so contained in said package. Sec. 11. 
Every person delivering to a common carrier a package or parcel containing fish or game 
shall place upon said package the name and address of the owner or consignor of said 
package or parcel, and also place upon such package a description of the contents thereof, 
containing the number of birds or animals of each kind and the number of fish of each 
variety. Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to receive for transporta- 
tion or transport any package or parcel containing fish or game unless the same shall 
be labeled as provided. 

IMPORTATION.— Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or common 
carrier to bring in'>o this State any fish or game from any State during the time that such 
other State prohibits the transportation of such fish or game from said State to a point 
without the same. Sec. 14. It shall be unlawful and is prohibited for any person, firm 
or corporation or common carrier to ship into or through this State from any other 
State any fish or game prohibited by the laws of said State to be shipped or transported. 

MINNOWS FOR BAIT.-Art. III.— Sec. 1. It shall be lawful to take minnows of any 
variety not protected by this act, for bait, in the shallow waters of this State with nets 
or seines not exceeding 20 feet in length and 3 feet in depth. 

LICENSES.— Art. IV.— Sec. L The Game and Fish Commissioner shall upon applica- 
tion and the payment to the State Treasurer of the fee by this act required issue to any 
non-resident of this State a license authorizing such licensee in person within this State 
to hunt for and kill game, and to fish for and take fish during the open season for such 
game and fish, and to have in his possession and dispose of the same, subject to all of the 
restrictions imposed by this act. [County clerks may issue the licenses.]. Sec. 2. It shall 
be unlawful for any person not a bona fide resident of this State to pursue, hunt, kill or 
wound within this State any of the animals, birds or fish, or to fish for or take out of this 
State any of the birds or fish protected by this act, except in accordance with the pro- 
visions hereof and without first having procured a license therefor, as in this act provided. 
Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided in this act, it shall be unlawful for any resident of 
this State without first having procured a license therefor, to hunt or fish within this 
State: Provided, That said license shall authorize said person to fish and hunt within any 
county of the State; and provided further, any person may, during the open season as 
herein defined, hunt and fish within the county of his actual residence without such 

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license. Sec. 5. The holder of any license authorizing him to transport game or fish to 
any point outside of this State shall upon offering any such game or fish for shipment 
to any common carrier present to the agent a true invoice of such shipment showing the 
number and kind of birds and the number and variety of fish thereof, and shall at the 
same time deliver to such agent his license, and such agent shall indorse upon such 
license with ink the date of the receipt of such consignment, with the number and 
varieties of such game or fish, together with the name of the consignee and the point to 
which consigned. Sec. 6. The State Treasurer shall charge for each license issued to a 
non-resident $10; for each license issued to a resident $1. Sec. 8. All licenses shall 
expire on the 31st day of December next succeeding the date of their issuance. 

NEVADA. 

Approved March 14th, 1903, 114. 

FISH.— Act March 14th, 1903.— Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful to take any river, lake or 
brook trout, or land-locked salmon, white fish, or wide-mouthed bass in any of the 
streams, lakes, rivers, or other waters within this State between the 1st day of November 
and the 15th day of March of the succeeding year. Sec. 10. Any person or persons who 
shall at any time take or catch any fish in any manner within one hundred feet of any 
dam containing a fishway or fish ladder, which is required by law, shall be deemed guilty 
of [a] misdemeanor. 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Act March 16, 1903.-Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful to kill any 
bluebird, bluejay, thrush, mockingbird, yellowhammer, oriole, hummingbird, or swan, 
robin, meadowlark, or any insectivorous plume or song bird. 

GAME BIRDS.— Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to kill any pheasant before the 1st day of 
September, A.D. 1906. Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful after the 15th day of February and 
before the 15th day of July of each and every year to kill any sage cock or sage hen. 
Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to kill any grouse or mountain quail between the 1st day 
of March and the 15tli day of September of each succeeding year. Sec. 5. It shall be 
unlawful at any time after March 1st and before September 15th to kill any wild duck, 
sandhill crane, plover, curlew, snipe, woodcock, valley quail, or prairie chicken. 
Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful to use at any time a shotgun of larger caliber than that 
commonly known and designated as a number ten gauge. Sec. 11. It shall be unlaw- 
ful for any person to kill or have in possession a greater number than 20 ducks or 
20 mountain quail, 20 sage hens, 6 grouse, 20 valley quail, 5 plover or 15 snipe in one 
day. 

BIG GAME. — Sec. S. The open season for deer and antelope shall be from September 
15th and until November 15th, and during that time it shall be unlawful for any person 
to kill, catch, trap, wound, or pursue with an attempt to catch, capture, injure or 
destroy, any number of deer or antelope exceeding three for any one open season or 
year. It shall be unlawful to kill any female deer or antelope or any spotted fawn at 
any time. Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful to hunt any deer, antelope, caribou, elk, 
mountain sheep or mountain goat, with or by the use of or aid of any hound or hounds. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 13. Every person who shall transport, carry or take out of this State, 
or who shall receive for the purpose of transporting, or carrying from this State any 
deer, buck, doe or fawn, or any mountain sheep, or antelope, or any quail, sage chicken, 
prairie chicken, grouse, wild duck or goose, or any other bird or animal mentioned in 
this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

BEAVER AND OTTER.-Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful to catch, kill, destroy, trap, 
net, weir, or cage any beaver or otter within this State before the first day of April 
A.D. 1910. 



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MICHIGAN. 

Act approved and in effect June i6, 1905. 

GAME BELONGS TO THE STATE.— Chap., Laws 1905.— Sec. 1. That all wild animals 
and wild birds, both resident and migratory, in this State, shall be, and are hereby 
declared to be, the property of the State. 

DEER, CERTAIN COUNTIES.— Sec. t. That no person shall injure, pursue, hunt 
or kill, or attempt to injure, kill or capture by any means whatever, any deer on the 
Island of Bois Blanc or in the counties of Lapeer, Huron, Sanilac, Tuscola, Macomb, 
Allegan, Ottawa, St. Clair, Lake Osceola, Clare, Mason, Manistee, Wexford, Missaukee, 
Newaygo, Mecosta, Isabella, Benzie, Leelanau, Grand Traverse, Oceana and Gladwin 
until the 1st day of January, 1906, and thereafter only at the time, in the manner and 
for the purpose authorized by law. 

MOOSE, ELK, CAKIBOLT.- Sec. 3. No person shall kill any moose, elk or caribou 
for a period of eight years after the date this act shall take effect. 

DEER.— Sec. 4. No person shall kill any deer, save only from the 10th day of November 
to the 30th day of November, both inclusive, in one year. No person shall kill more 
than two deer in any one year. Sec. 6. No person shall kill or capture at any time 
or in any manner, any deer when it is in tlie red coat or any fawn in the spotted coat. 
Nor shall any person hunt, pursue, kill or capture any deer while it is in the water. Sec. 8. 
No person shall make use of any artificial light in hunting, pursuing or killing deer, 
and the wearing or having such light on the head in the woods shall be prima facie 
evidence of a violation of this section. Sec. 9. No person shall make use of a dog in 
hunting, pursuing or killmg deer; the presence of a hound in the woods, hunting camp, 
logging camp or club house during the deer hunting season shall be prima facie evidence 
of their unlawful use. Any dog pursuing, killing or following upon the track of a deer 
is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and may be killed by any person when so 
seen without criminal or civil liability. 

SALE, TRANSPORTATION.— Sec. 5. No person shall expose or keep for sale, or 
sell or barter to any other person any of the protected animals or birds mentioned in 
this act within the State of Michigan, nor shall any person, or any corporation acting 
as a common carrier, ship, carry, take or transport, either within or beyond the con- 
fines of this State, any animal or animals, or portion or portions thereof, or bird or birds 
protected by this act, except as hereinafter provided. 

SQUIRREL. — Sec. 7. No person shall kill any fox squirrel, American squirrel, black 
squirrel or gray squirrel, save only from October 15th to November 3Uth, both inclusive, 
in each year; nor shall any person kill any such squirrel at any time in any public or 
private park, or in any incorporated city or village. 

QUAIL.— Sec. 11. No person shall kill any bob white or Virginia partridge, commonly 
called quail, until October 15th^ 1907, except as hereinafter permitted, and then only 
between the 15th day of October and the 30tli day of November, both inclusive, in 
each year, and it shall be unlawful for any person to kill more than twelve quail in one 
day, and it shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession or in the posses- 
sion of any person, firm or corporation for him at one time, more than fifty such bob 
white or \'irginia partridge, commonly called quail. 

RUFFED GROUSE, PARTRIDGE, SPRUCE HEN.-Sec. 12. No person shall kill any 
ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, or any spruce hen, save only from October 15th 
to November 30th, both inclusive, in each year: Provided, however. That in the Upper 
Peninsula ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, and spruce hen, may be killed from 
October 1st to November 30th, both inclusive, in each year. And it shall be unlawful 
for any person to kill a greater number of ruffed grouse or spruce hen than twelve in 
one day, and it shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession or in the 
possession of any person, firm or corporation for him at any one time, more than fifty 
ruffed grouse or more than fifty spruce hen. 

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WILDFOWL, SNIPE, PLOVER, WOODCOCK.— Sec. 13. No person shall kill any 
kind of wild duck, snipe, plover, woodcock, or any kind of wild water fowl, save only from 
September 1st in each year to January 1st of the year following, both inclusive, and 
then only from one-half hour before sunrise until one hour after sunset of each day: 
Provided, however. That in addition to the open season for wild fowl shooting herein- 
before in this section established, it shall be lawful to hunt and kill blue bill, canvas 
back, red head, widgeon, pintail, whistler, spoon bill, and butter ball ducks between 
the 15th day of March and the 10th day of April, both inclusive, in each year: And 
provided further. That it shall be lawful to hunt and kill wild geese, brant, and saw-bill 
ducks between the 1st day of September in each year, and the 1st day of January follow- 
ing and from the 15th of March to the 10th of April. No person shall hunt, pursue, worry 
or kill any wild water fowl by any means whatever during such time as said person or 
persons are upon any floating device, or contrivance, propelled by or using as motive 
power steam, gas, naphtha, oil, gasoline, or electricity, or when upon any sail boat, nor 
shall any person make use of any swivel or punt gun for the killing of any wild water 
fowl, or make use of any battery, sink boat, or similar device whatever, save only a gun 
of not greater size than ten gauge, such gun to be held in the hands at the time of 
firing, and it shall be unlawful for any person to kill in any one day more than twenty- 
five game fowl or birds mentioned in this section. And it shall be unlawful for any 
person at any one time, to have in his posj^cssion or in the possession of any person, 
firm or corporation for him, more than seventy-five such game fowl or birds. 

METHODS, NESTS. — Sec. 14. No person shall at any time make use of any pit, 
pitfall, deadfall, scattold, cage, snare, trap, net, baited hook, or any similar device, or 
any drug, poison, chemical or explosive, for the purpose of injuring, capturing or killing 
any birds or animals protected by the laws of this State. 

TRAINING DOGS IN CLOSE SEASON.— Sec. 15. No person shall molest, harass or 
annoy or break, train or practice, any dog upon any game bird, or animal referred to in 
this act during their respective closed seasons: Provided, That it shall be lawful for any 
person to train or practice dogs upon game birds for fifteen days next preceding the 
opening of the ruffed grouse season in each year: Provided, further. That it shall be 
unlawful for any such person to have in his possession any firearms while so engaged 
in training and practicing such dogs. Excepting, however, that the State game and 
fish warden may in his discretion issue to any bona fide field trial association within 
this State a permit to kill not to exceed twenty-five quail in any one year in connection 
with the field trial exhibition of such field trial association. 

GAME BIRDS DEFINED.— Sec. 16. For the purpose of this act, the following shall 
be considered game birds: The Anatidx, commonly known as geese, brant and wild 
ducks; the Rallidx, commonly known as rails, coots and gallinules; the Limicola;, com- 
monly known as shore birds, snipe, woodcock, plover, sandpipers, tatlers and curlews; 
the Gallinaj, commonly known as wild turkeys, pheasants, grouse, prairie chickens and 
quail. All other species of wild resident or migratory birds shall be considered non- 
game birds. 

lURDS NON-GAME.— Sec. 17. No person shall kill, catch, or have in possession any 
resident or migratory wild non-game bird, living or dead, or purchase, offer, or expose 
for sale, any such wild non-game bird, after it has been killed or caught, except as 
permitted by this act, and no part of the plumage, skin or body of any non-game bird 
protected by this act shall be sold or had in possession for sale, and this irrespective of 
whether said bird was captured or killed within or without this State. 

CERTIFICATE.— Sec. 18. Section 17 of this act shall not apply to any person hold- 
ing a certificate giving the right to take birds, their nests or eggs, for scientific pur- 
poses. Such certificates may be granted by a board, to consist of three persons who 
shall be appointed annually, one by the president of the University of Michigan, one by 
the president of the Michigan Agricultural College, and. one by the president of the 
State Normal College, to any person above the age of fifteen years, who shall present 
written testimonials from two reputable ornithologists certifying to the good character 

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and fitness of said applicant to be entrusted with such privilege. A fee of $1 shall ac- 
company such application for certificate. 

BIRDS NOT PROTECTED.— Sec. 19. English sparrows, black birds, crows. Cooper's 
hawks, sharpshinned hawks and great horned owls are not included among the birds pro- 
tected by this act, nor does this act prohibit any person from killing crows on his 
premises if destructive to planted or growing crops: Provided, That said birds are not 
sold or ofifered for sale or shipped beyond the confines of this State. 

POSSESSION.— Sec. 20. No person shall have in possession the dead body or carcass 
or skin, or any portion thereof, of any animal or bird mentioned or referred to in this 
act during the time when the killing of such animal or bird is unlawful, except as 
authorized by law, and excepting specimens mounted for scientific or educational pur- 
poses. Provided, however, That any person may have in possession for five days after 
the closing of the season game birds and animals lawfully killed during the open season. 

EXPORT OF VENISON.— Sec. 21. The State game and fish warden is hereby 
authorized to issue to any non-resident of this State, who has taken out a non-resident 
license to hunt for deer in this State, a permit to take one deer out of this State, when 
fully satisfied such deer was lawfully killed by such non-resident, and is for the personal 
use of such non-resident, and that no part of same will be sold. 

TRANSPORTATION.— Sec. 23. The State game and fish warden is hereby given 
authority to issue permits for the transportation and sale of deer skms at any season of the 
year when satisfied that the animals from which such skins were taken were killed at a law- 
ful time and in a lawful manner. All game or game birds being transported under cover 
shall be plainly marked on outside of package such game or game birds are shipped in, 
with the name of the consignor and the consignee, the initial point of billing, and the 
destination, with an itemized statement of the quantity of game birds contained. 

SCIENTIFIC SPECIMENS.— Sec. 25. The State game and fish warden is hereby 
given authority to issue permits to any person to take, capture or kill any animal or 
game bird mentioned in this act, at any time when satisfied such person desires the 
same exclusively as specimens or for scientific or propagating purposes. 

EXPORT OF WILDFOWL.— Sec. 27. The State game and fish warden may, in his 
discretion, on application and the payment of a $10 fee, issue to individuals owning lands 
in this State, or bona fide members of clubs who own and maintain game preserves in 
this State, permits good for the yearly game season, to ship during the season fifty 
wild ducks or other migratory birds lawfully killed by him or them, on their own 
premises or the premises of the club of which he or they are members, to his or their 
respective homes out of the State: Provided, The shipper shall, in each case, make 
and attach to the package containing such game, his own affidavit, a duplicate copy of 
which he shall immediately cause to be mailed to the State game and fish warden, setting 
forth that the wild game birds thus shipped, describing the same, were killed on his 
premises, or the premises of the club of which he is a member, and that the game 
was killed by himself, and is not for sale and will not be offered for sale. 

CERTAIN BIRDS PROTECTED TO 1910.— Chap. 217, Laws 1901.— Sec. 9 [as amended 
1905]. No person shall kill any mourning dove or any Antwerp or homing pigeon. It 
shall be unlawful for any person to kill any pinnated grouse, commonly called prairie 
chicken, or any Mongolian or English pheasants, capercailzie, black game, or hazel 
grouse, or any wild turkey, or any wild pigeon until the year 1910, and then only at the 
time, in the manner and for the purpose authorized by law. 

[GRAND ISLAND elk, moose, caribou, deer, antelope, buffalo, native partridge, Mani- 
toba grouse, dal-ryper and ptarmigan protected to 1910.] 

DEER HUNTING LICENSE.— Chap. 268, P. A. 1897.— Sec. 1. The people of the 
State of Michigan enact, That it shall not be lawful for any person to hunt for or kill 
deer in this State without first obtaining a hunter's license permitting him to do so. 
Sec. 2. Any person who has been a bona-fidc resident of this State for six months then 
last past may procure a hunter's license for himself by filing his affidavit with the clerk 

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of the county where he resides, stating his name, age, place of residence, post-office 
address, the color of his hair and eyes and the fact of whether he can or cannot write 
his own name, paying to said clerk the sum of one dollar and fifty cents. Sec. 3. Any non- 
resident of this State may procure a hunter's license by filing his affidavit with the 
clerk of the county of one of the coxmties in which he proposes to hunt, stating his 
name, age, place of residence, post-office address, color of his hair and eyes and the 
county or counties in which he proposes to hunt, and the fact whether he can or can- 
not write his own name and paying to said clerk the sum of twenty-five dollars. Sec. 4. 
Such licenses shall be dated when issued and shall authorize the person named therein 
to use firearms in hunting for or killing deer for the deer hunting season of that year, 
but only in the manner and at the times provided by law. Sec. 9. It shall not be law- 
ful for any railroad company, express company, boat or other transportation company 
to transport any deer or part of a deer from one place to another in this State unless 
the shipper shall produce his license as provided in this act and sign and detach one 
coupon therefrom and attach the same to such deer or part thereof oiTered for ship- 
ment, in the presence of the shipping agent, and if he cannot write he shall sign by his 
mark, which agent shall sign such coupon as a witness, and such coupon shall accom- 
pany said deer or part thereof to its destination. 

TROUT, LANDLOCKED SALMON, GRAYLING, MUSKALLONGE, BASS.— 
Act of May 24, 1889.— Sec. 1. No person shall catch any speckled trout, landlocked 
salmon, grayling or California trout, from the 1st day of September in each year, until 
the 1st day of May following thereafter; nor shall any person catch any muskallonge, or 
any black, strawberry, green or white bass, by any means whatever, except by hook 
and line, from any such lake, river or stream, from the 1st day of March in each year 
to the 1st day of July following thereafter. 

SIZE AND LIMIT.— Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful to kill any brook trout, speckled trout, 
California trout, landlocked salmon, Loch Leven trout,, steelhead trout or grayling of a 
size less than seven inches in length. 

[It is unlawful to take from the waters of the Au Sable River or any of its tributaries 
any brook trout, speckled trout, rainbow trout or California trout of a less size than 
eight inches in length, or for any person to take from said waters more than fifty fish 
of the kinds above named in any one day, or to take with him therefrom or to have in 
his possession at any point away therefrom more than fifty fish of said kinds at any one 
time. It is unlawful to take from any of the lakes, rivers or streams of this State, in 
any one day, more than fifty fish of the following varieties: Muskallonge, or black, 
strawberry, green or white bass, or any speckled or brook trout, German trout, Cali- 
fornia trout, landlocked salmon. Loch Leven trout, steelhead trout or grayling, or to 
take therefrom or to have in possession more than one hundred fish of said kinds at any 
one time.] 

BLACK BASS.— Act 179, Laws 1901.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful in the inland waters 
to take any black bass from and after the 1st day of April and up to and including the 
succeeding 20th of May. 

ALABAMA. 

SUNDAY.— Act approved Feb. 8, 1899.- Sec. 1. There shall be no hunting or shooting 
on the first day of the week, called Sunday. 

WILD BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 2. [All wild birds are protected except the 
English or European house sparrow, kingfisher. Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, 
duck hawk, pigeon hawk, great horned owl and barred owl, green heron and night 
heron, and the birds for which seasons are given below.] 

GAME BIRDS.— Sec. 3. No person shall kill any wild turkey, pheasant, grouse, quail, 
partridge, woodcock, prairie chicken, English, Mongolian or Chinese pheasants, save 
only from the 15th day of November to the 1st day of March, inclusive. Provided, that 
it shall be unlawful to kill any Mongolian, English or Chinese pheasants for a period of 
five years from the date of the approval of this act; and provided, further, that it shall 
be lawful to kill wild turkey during the month of Eebruary. 

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DEER.— Sec. 4. That no person shall kill any deer or fawn save during the months 
of September, October, November and December. No person shall kill any deer in the 
waters of any streams, ponds or lakes. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 6. That no person shall at any time kill or have in possession or 
control any of the birds or game mammals of this State with intent to ship the same 
beyond the limits of this State, and it shall not be lawful for any person to transport 
or remove beyond the limits of this State any of the game birds or game mammals 
mentioned in this act. 

SQUIRREL.— Sec. 7. No person shall kill any black, gray or fox squirrel save only 
from the 1st day of July to the 1st day of Eebruary, inclusive. 

GUN ONLY.— Sec. 8. No person shall kill any of the game birds or song birds, or 
game mammals hereinbefore mentioned, in any other manner than by shooting them 
with a gun. 

COUNTIES EXEMPT.- [Many counties are exempt from the provisions of the law.] 

INDIANA. 

Summary of the law as prepared by Fisheries and Game Commissioner Z. T. Sweeney. 
It is Lawful. 

WILDFOWL.— To hunt wild geese, ducks and water fowl from the 1st day of 
September of any year to the 15th day of April of the succeeding year. 

SQUIRRELS.— To hunt squirrels from the 1st day of August to the 1st day of 
October of any year, and from Nov. 10th of any year to Jan. 1st of the succeeding year. 

QUAIL.— To kill quail, not exceeding twenty-four in one day, from. Nov. 10th of any 
year to the 1st day of January of the succeeding year. 

DOVES.— To kill doves from the 15th day of August to the 1st day of October of 
any year, and from Nov. 10th of any year to Jan. 1st of the succeeding year. 

PRAIRIE CHICKENS.— To shoot prairie chickens from the 10th day of November 
of any year to the 1st day of January of the succeeding year. 

GROUSE. — To shoot ruffed grouse or pinnated grouse from Nov. 10th of any 
year to the 1st day of January of the succeeding year. 

RABBITS.— To hunt rabbits at any time from Nov. 10th of any year to the 1st day 
of October of the succeeding year. 

FISH. — To fish with hook and line in the streams and overflow ponds of the State 
at any time. To fish with hook and line in the inland lakes of the State from the 15th 
day of May of any year to the 20th day of March of the succeeding year: Provided, 
That persons fishing in the inland lakes when same are covered with ice, are 
prohibited from using to exceed two hooks, and are not allowed to use fish shanties 
or houses. To use a set line in the waters of this State with not to exceed one 
hundred hooks attached thereto. To catch minnows for bait with a minnow trap, or 
with a minnow seine not to exceed twelve feet in length, four feet in width and with 
meshes not less than one-quarter of an inch. 

It is Unlawful. 

SUNDAY.— To hunt on Sunday. 

BIRDS NOT GAME. — To kill any wild bird, other than a game bird, at any time. 

EXPORT. — To take beyond the limits of this State, or to receive for the purpose 
of taking beyond the limits of this State (except in case of a non-resident who has 
secured a non-resident license, which licensee is authorized to take out of the State 
twenty-four game birds of all kinds killed by himself) any wild deer, quail, grouse, 
prairie chicken, woodcock, wild turkey, or any species of pheasant. 

SALE.— To sell or offer for sale quail at any time. 

WILDFOWL.- — To shoot, or to shoot at, any waterfowl between sunset of any day 

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and sunrise of the succeeding day. To pursue any water fowl with any launch or boat, 
other than a row boat or push boat, for the purpose of shooting or killing such 
water fowl. 

DEER, WILD TURKEY, PHEASANT.— To shoot, kill or pursue for such purpose, 
or have in possession, any wild deer, wild turkey, or any species of pheasant. 

TRESPASS.— To hunt with dog, ferret, or to shoot with any kind of firearms upon 
any land without first securing written permission of the owner or tenant of such land. 

CLOSE TIME.— To hunt any kind of game, except water fowl, from Oct. 1 to Nov. 10 
of any year. 

LICENSES.— For any resident of the State of Indiana to hunt anywhere in the State, 
except in the township wherein he resides, any of the wild animals, fowls or birds that 
are protected by law at any time of the year without first procuring from the Com- 
missioner of Fisheries and Game a license to do so, which license costs $1. For 
any non-resident to hunt anywhere in the State of Indiana without first procuring from 
the clerk of any county of the State, a li-^ense to do so, which license costs $15.50. 

FISH. — It is unlawful to sell or ship beyond the limits of this State any species of 
game fish. It is unlawful to use any Indian cockle or fish berries for the purpose of 
catching fish. To trespass on enclosed land for the purpose of setting a trot line. 
To catch more than twenty black bass in any one day, or to take more than fifty blue 
gills, sun fish or crappies in any one day. To have possession of any pickerel, wall- 
eyed pike or pike perch less than twelve inches long, or rock bass or crappie less than 
six inches long, or black bass less than ten inches long. To shoot or shoot at any 
fish at any time. 

TEXAS. 

Act of 1903. 
For 1905 Amendments of this Law see Index 

GAME PROPERTY OF PUBLIC— Sec. 1. All the wild deer, wild antelope, wild 
Rocky Mountain sheep, wild turkeys, wild ducks, wild geese, wild grouse, wild 
prairie chickens (pinnated grouse), wild Mongolian or English pheasants, wild quail or 
partridges, wild doves, wild pigeons, wild plover, wild snipe, wild jacksnipe and wild 
curlews, and all other wild animals, wild birds and wild fowls found within the borders 
of this State, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be the property of the public 

BIRDS NOT GAME.— Sec. 2. That from the passage of this act it shall be unlawful 
for a period of five years to kill, catch or have in possession, living or dead, any wild 
bird, other than a game bird, or to purchase, offer to expose for sale, transport or ship 
within or without the State, any such wild bird after it has been killed or caught, except 
as permitted by this act. No part of the plumage, skin or body of any bird protected by 
this section shall be sold or had in possession for sale. For the purposes of this act the 
following only shall be considered game birds: Wild turkeys, wild ducks, wild geese, 
wild grouse, wild prairie chickens (pinnated grouse), wild Mongolian or English pheas- 
ants, wild quail or partridges, wild doves, wild pigeons, wild plover, wild snipe, wild 
jacksnipe and wild curlews. 

GUNS. — Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful to destroy any wild geese, or wild ducks by 
means otherwise than by an ordinary gun, capable of being held to and shot from the 
shoulder. 

PHEASANT, ANTELOPE, SHEEP.-Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful to kill any wild 
Mongolian or English pheasant, or wild antelope, or wild Rocky Mountain sheep, for the 
space of five years next after this act takes effect. 

SEASONS.— Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful to kill any wild deer between the 1st day of 
January and the 1st day of November; provided it shall be unlawful at any season of the 
year to take any wild female deer or spotted fawn; and provided further, that it shall be 
unlawful for any person to take or kill more than six wild bucks during the months of 
November and December of any one year; or any wild turkey between the 1st day of Feb- 

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ruary and the 1st day of November; or any prairie chicken (pinnated grouse) between the 
1st day of February and the 1st day of November; or any quail or partridge between the 
1st day of February and the 1st day of November; or any dove between the 1st day of 
February and 1st day of September; Provided, it shall be unlawful for any person, at 
any time, to kill more than twenty-five birds or fowls mentioned in Sec. 1 of this act, 
in any one day. It shall further be unlawful to hunt deer, or other game mentioned in 
Sec. 1 of this act, by aid of a hunting lamp or lantern, or any other light used for the 
purpose of hunting at night; and after the space of five years next after this takes effect, 
it shall be unlawful to kill any wild antelope or wild Rocky Mountain sheep between the 
1st day of January and the 1st day of November: Provided further. That it shall be 
unlawful for any person to kill more than two wild antelope, or one Rocky Mountain 
sheep during the months of November and December; or any wild Mongolian or 
English pheasants between the first day of February and the 1st day of November. 

SHIPMENT, EXPORT.— Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any express company, 
railroad company, or other common carrier, to transport beyond the limits of this State, 
or within this State, except as hereinafter provided, any wild animal, bird or water fowl 
mentioned in Sec. 1., or the carcass thereof, or the hide thereof: Provided, 
That this act shall not apply to the transportation of any live animal, bird 
or fowl mentioned in Sec. 1 shipped for scientific or breeding purposes. 
Sec. 11. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the transportation 
and shipment of game, birds or wild fowls mentioned in Sec. 1, when lawfully killed, 
from the place of shipment to the home of the person who killed the same: Provided, 
The person who killed said game, birds or fowls, shall accompany said game, birds or 
fowls on the same train, or common carrier, from the point of shipment to said point of 
destination; and provided further. That the persons desiring to ship or transport said 
game, birds or fowls shall first make the following affidavit in writing before some officer 
authorized by law to administer oaths, and deliver same to said railroad, or other com- 
mon carrier, or to the agent of said railroad or common carrier at the point of shipment: 
The State of Texas . . . County of . . . Before me, the undersigned authority, 
on this day personally appeared . . . who after being by me duly sworn upon oath 
says: I live at ... in the county of ... in Texas; that I have killed (state the 
number and kind of game, birds or fowls) which I desire to ship from , . . in . . . 
county, Texas, to my home, which game I have killed for my own use, and not for 
sale, and same will not i)e sold, and same will be accompanied by me froni the point of 
shipment to the point of destination; that I have not killed or shipped exceeding six 
buck deer during this hunting season, and have not killed or shipped exceeding twenty- 
five birds or fowls mentioned in Sec. 1 of this act, in any one day of the present hunting 
season. Sworn to and subscribed by . . . before me this • . . day of . . . 
190 .. . (Name and official character of officer). 

And thereupon said game birds, or fowls shall be transported or shipped by railroad or 
other common carrier in the name of the person making said affidavit to the home of said 
person, and shall mark on the card attached to said game, birds or fowls the words 
"affidavit made." 

NATURALISTS' PERMIT.— Sec. 12. Certificates may be granted by the Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture to any properly accredited person of the age of fifteen years or 
upward permitting the holder thereof to take and ship any wild animal, wild bird or wild 
fowl, their nests or eggs, for strictly scientific purposes only. 

BIRDS NOT PROTECTED.— Sec. 15. The English or European house sparrow, 
hawks, crows, buzzards, blackbirds, rice birds and owls are not included among the birds 
protected by this act. Sec. 16. Nothing in this act shall prevent the keeping of any bird 
in a cage as a domestic pet: Provided, That such shall not be sold or exchanged for 
sale or exchange, or transported out of the State. 

IMPORTED GAME.— Sec. 17. Whenever in this act the possession of any bird is 
prohibited, such prohibition shall apply equally to a bird coming from outside the State 
as to one taken within the State.. 

For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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LOUISIANA. 

GAME.— Act No. 126, Laws 1904.— Sec. 2. It .shall be unlawful to kill any wild deer, 
nor any of the following game birds: fowls, swans, geese, brant, wild ducks, rails (mud 
hens), coots (poule d'eau), gallinules, surf birds, snipe, sandpipers, chorooks, papabottes, 
tattlers, curlews, plovers, grosbec, wild turkeys, quail, doves, prairie hens, woodcock 
and woodduck, or have in possession, except as hereinafter provided. 

DEER.— Sec. 3 [Police Juries of the Parishes are authorized to fi.x close seasons of 
seven months]. North of the 31st parallel the months of May, June, July and up to 
August 15th shall in every instance be included in the close season. Sec. 4. It shall 
be unlawful to kill at any time a doe or a fawn. 

BIRDS AND FOWL.— Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful to kill between the dates Of the 
close season herein named: doves, rails (mud hens), coots (poule d'eau), gallinules, surf 
birds, sandpipers, chorooks, tattlers, curlews, plover and grosbec, from March 1st to 
August 1st; snipe from May 1st to September 1st; wild ducks, swans, geese and brant 
from April 15th to September 1st; quail from March 1st to November 1st; turkey from 
April 1st to December 1st. Sec. 6. [Wild turkey hen always protected.] Sec. 7. It 
shall be unlawful to kill or have in possession any prairie hens or woodduck (branchu), 
al any time during the next five years after the passage of this act, and thereafter be- 
tween March 1st and September 1st. 

NUMBER. — Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill more than twenty- 
five of the birds or fowls mentioned in Section 2 in any one day; snipe and wild duck, 
which number shall be limited to seventy-five, nor more than six wild deer during the 
months from September 1st to February 1st. 

EXPORT AND TRANSPORTATION.-Sec. 11. [Export forbidden, except that] it 
shall not be unlawful for a hunter or a sportsman to carry with him beyond the 
confines of this State one wild deer or twelve game birds. Such hunter must make affi- 
davit before a notary public that he has killed said animals, and that they or it will not be 
sold. Sec. 12. [All packages of game shipped within the State must be plainly marked 
with names of consignor and consignee, with itemized statement of number of birds 
and names of the species; and the package must be so constructed as to show contents.] 

LICENSE.— Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful for any non-resident or unnaturalized foreign- 
born resident of Louisiana to hunt within this State unless he has in his possession, 
ready to exhibit to any warden or officer upon request, a license issued to him by the 
sheriff of the Parish in which he may be hunting. Such license shall be issued upon 
payment of a fee of $10. [For a license to hunt for profit, the fee is $25.] 

BIRDS NON-GAME.— Act No. 48, Laws 1904.— Sec. 2. The following shall be con- 
sidered game birds: Swan, geese, brant, wild ducks, rails (mud hens), coots (poule 
d'eau), gallinules, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers (chorooks), upland plover (papa- 
bottes), tattlers, curlew, plover (grosbec), wild turkey, prairie chickens, quail and doves. 
All other species of wild resident or migratory birds shall be considered non-game birds. 
Sec. 2. No person shall kill, or have in possession, living or dead, any such wild non- 
game bird. [Secretary of State may issue certificate for taking birds for science.] Sec. 
10. The English sparrow, Cooper's hawk, duck hawk, sharpshinned hawk and great 
horned owl are not included among the birds protected by this act. [Crows and black- 
birds may be killed if destructive of crops.] 

FISH.— Act No. 147, Laws 1904.— Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful to catch or have in 
possession any fish of the fresh water streams during December, January and February, 
except catfish, gar, buffalo, German carp and gaspargough. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful 
to catch any fish that inhabit the fresh water streams in any other manner than rod and 
line, except the ones named in Section 1. 



For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— WISCONSIN. 



WISCONSIN. 

At the time of going to press, the Wisconsin law of 1904 had not been received. It will 
be sent on request. 

Following is an abstract of its provisions: 

SALE OF GAME PROHIBITED.— Game must be accompanied by the owner when 
in transit. 

LICENSES.— All persons desiring to hunt deer or other game must obtain a license, 
and pay the following fees therefor: Residents, $1. Non-residents, $25 for hunting deer 
and other game; $10 for hunting game except deer. Hunting license must be in posses- 
sion of person while hunting. Non-residents in possession of a license therefor may kill 
and ship two deer; and may ship fifty game birds, fowls or animals. Resident licensees 
not allowed to ship game out of the State. 

DEER. — General open season Nov. 11th to Nov. 30th, both inclusive. Special pro- 
visions prevail in certain counties. It is forbidden to hunt deer with dog or dogs, 
or in the night time, or in the water or on the ice of any stream, pond or lake, or 
by means of any pit, pit-fall, trap or snare, or by the aid of any artificial light. Salt 
licks are prohibited. It is unlawful to kill or possess more than two deer in any one 
year or to have in possession the skin of any deer when in the red coat, or the skin 
of a fawn when in the spotted coat. It shall be unlawful to transport any carcass or 
part of carcass or a green hide or a green head of a deer between December 3d and 
November 12th following; or to transport a carcass or part of carcass of a deer during 
the open season without having attached thereto coupons properly cancelled as provided 
by law. 

BIRDS. — The open seasons are: Woodcock, partridge, plover, snipe, pheasant, and 
grouse of any variety, Sept. 1 to Dec. 1; prairie chicken, Sept. 15 to Oct. 15; wild duck 
or other aquatic fowl, Sept. 1 to Jan. 1; wild goose or brant, Sept. 1 to April 1. 

MONGOLIAN, CHINESE, ENGLISH PHEASANT AND QUAIL protected always. 

LIMIT to the number of game birds that may be killed or possessed during any one 
day: Fifteen prairie chickens, grouse of any variety or woodcock; 25 partridge or pheas- 
ant; 30 wild geese, wild duck of any variety, plover or snipe. 

PROHIBITED METHODS of hunting aquatic fowl: Shooting on open water be- 
yond the natural covering of reeds and rushes; to shoot from an artificial blind; to hunt 
in the night time; to use more than twenty-five decoys; or to use a net of any kind. 

PROHIBITED METHODS of hunting protected game birds: To use any snare, net, 
trap, spring gun or similar contrivance, or any other firearm not habitually held at 
arm's length and discharged from the shoulder. 

ANIMALS.— Rabbits, grey fox or black squirrel, open season Sept. 1 to March 1; 
fisher, martin or mink, Nov. 1 to March 1; otter, Nov. 1 to Feb. 15; muskrat, Nov. 
1 to May 1. It is unlawful to destroy or molest muskrat houses or to shoot or spear 
muskrats. Beaver protected always. 

FISH.— Open season for brook trout of any variety. May 1 to Aug. 15. It is unlawful 
to retain trout of any variety less than six inches in length, or to have more than ten 
pounds in possession during any one day or to sell any trout, or to ship same without 
accompanying the shipment, or to fish for any variety of fish in a trout stream during 
the closed season. 

Open season for game fish, May 25 to March 1. Restrictions in certain localities. 

It is unlawful to take game fish by any other method than by angling or trolling, or 
to take and retain black bass less than eight inches in length. 

TRANSPORTATION.— Packages containing fish or game must be labeled to show 
the weight of each kind of fish, the number of each variety of game, and the name and 
address of the consignor and consignee, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. 



For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— TENNESSEE. 



TENNESSEE. 
Chapter 169, Laws 1903, as amended 1905. 

GAME DEFINED.— Chap. 169, Laws 1903.— Sec. 2. For the purpose of this act the 
following animals and birds only shall be considered as game: Deer of any age or 
species, squirrels, the Gallin-ns, commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chick- 
ens, pheasants, sage hens, partridges and quails; the Anatids, commonly known as 
swans, geese, brant, ducks, both river and lake and sea ducks; the Rallidse, commonly 
known as rails, coots and mud hens; the Limicolae, commonly known as plovers, snipe, 
woodcock, sand pipers, tattlers, willets, curlews, godwits and avocets; the Icterids, com- 
monly known as marsh blackbirds, also doves, meadow larks and robins. 

SEASONS.— Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful to kill any of the game excepting within the 
times herein prescribed. The open season when game shall be lawfully killed shall be 
as follows: For deer of any age or species from October 1st to December 15th: Pro- 
vided, however, no deer shall be killed prior to two years from and after October 1, 1905. 
For grouse of any species, pheasants of any species except English ringneck pheasants, 
partridges, quails, meadow larks and wild turkeys from November 1st to March 1st. For 
swan, geese, brant, ducks, river, lake or sea ducks of any species except summer or 
woodducks, or teal ducks, from October 1st to April 15th. For rails, coots, mudhens, 
plovers, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tattlers, willets, curlews, godwits and avocets, 
marsh blackbirds and robins from October 1st to April 15th. For doves and sunimer or 
woodducks or teal ducks, from August 1st to April 15th. For English ringnecked pheas- 
ants, from December 1st to January 1st: Provided, however. That no English ringnecked 
or Mongolian pheasants shall be killed prior to two years from and after November 1, 
1905. For squirrels from June 1st to March 1st. [There are numerous special county 
seasons for squirrels.] Rabbit may be killed at all seasons. 

BIRDS NOT PROTECTED.— Sec. 4. Such animals and birds generally deemed 
injurious, which are not specifically protected under this act or under the act of March, 
1903, may be killed at any and all seasons. [The act of March, Chap. 118, designates as 
game birds the species specified in Sec. 2 above, and also the bull bat, which is not 
protected at any time. It exempts from protection the English or European house 
sparrow, great horn owl, sharp skinned hawk, commonly known as little blue darter or 
blue tail. Cooper's hawk, known as the big blue darter or blue tail, crow, crow blackbird 
and turkey buzzard.] 

METHODS, SUNDAY.— Sec. 6. No person shall kill any game animals or game birds 
in any other way than by shooting them with a gun, nor shall any person use any gun 
other than held in the hands and fired from shoulder, and of a gauge not larger than 
No. 8, nor use any fire or light or other contrivance whatever with intent to attract or 
deceive or to blind any game birds or animals, except that decoys may be used in shoot- 
ing ducks, geese or brant. Nor shall any person shoot after sunset or before sunrise at 
any wild ducks, wild geese, brant or other wild fowl. There shall be no shooting or 
having in possession in the open air implements for shooting on first day of the week, 
called Sunday, except to transport such implements, nor shall any person shoot on or 
from a park or highway. 

NON-RESIDENT. — Sec. 9. Any person who is a non-resident and who desires to 
hunt in this State shall first procure a license, for which he shall pay the same fee as 
a resident of Tennessee is subject to in the State of said non-resident. A non-resident 
land owner whose annual tax amounts to not less than $100 shall be entitled to a license 
without payment of any fee. The shooter's license shall be issued by the State Game 
Warden. Any non-resident applying for such license shall file his application, setting 
out therein his name, age, occupation, place of residence, postofiice address, giving his 
weight, height, color of hair and eyes. Sail license shall be good only to the 31st day 
of December next after its issuance. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 10. A non-resident who desires to take game out of the State must 
have in his possession a non-resident license; must make written statement duly sworn 
to that the game is not for sale and will not be sold; and he must accompany the game. 
[Except as herein provided, export is forbidden at all times.] 

For any changes in the laws see index facing back cover. See note page 3. 

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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF— NORTH CAROLINA. 

BAG LIMIT.— Chap. 515, Laws 1905.— Sec. 21. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
shoot or kill in any one day during the open season more than fifty ducks, or, in the 
aggregate, more than thirty head of any of the other game birds specified in Chapter 
169, Acts of 1903. 

FISH. — There are no close seasons for angling. 

NORTH CAROLINA. 

For 1905 Amendments of this Law see Index 

MOUNT.AIN TROUT.— Code of 1883.— Sec. 1122. It shall be unlawful to catch moun- 
tain trout by seining at all times. And there shall be no taking of said fish by shooting 
or otherwise between the 16th day of October and the 30th day of December. 

SUNDAY.— Criminal Code 1893.— Sec. 258. If any person shall be known to hunt on 
Sunday with a dog, or shall be found off his premises on Sunday having upon him a 
shotgun, rifle or pistol, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

DEER.— Code of 1883.- Sec. 2832 [as amended 1893]. Any person who shall kill any 
deer between the 31st day of December and the 1st day of October next thereafter ensu- 
ing shall pay a penalty of $50. [There are numerous county and local laws.] 

BIRDS.— Code of 1883.— Sec. 2834. No person shall kill any partridge, quail, robins, 
lark, mocking-birds or wild turkeys, between the 15th day of March and the 1st day of 
November. [There are numerous county and local laws.] 

Exportation of Quail or Partridge.— Sec. 2835. No person shall export or transport 
from the State any quail or partridges, whether dead or alive. 

HUNTING WILD FOWL ON SUNDAY, BY NIGHT, OR WITH BIG GUNS.- 
Sec. 2837. No person shall hunt or shoot wild fowl on the Lord's day, commonly called 
Sunday, or on any day of the week after the hour of sunset and before the hour of day- 
light, with gun or fire, or use any gun other than can be fired from the shoulder. 

WILD FOWL, BLIND, BOX, BATTERY, ETC.— Sec. 2840. No person shall kill, for 
sale, any wild fowl in the waters of Currituck, New Hanover, and Brunswick counties 
between the 10th days of March and November of each year, or ship out of the State 
between said dates any wild fowl killed in the waters aforesaid; and no non-resident 
shall shoot any wild fowl in any of the waters of New Hanover and Brunswick, Currituck 
and Dare counties from any blind, box, battery, or float of any kind which is not on 
land at the time. [Non-residents (on license from clerk of Superior Court, fee $25) may 
fo shoot in certain waters of Dare county.] 

Act, March 8, 1897, [as amended 1899].- Sec 1. That it shall be unlawful for any per- 
son who is not a citizen of the State of North Carolina to hunt or shoot any wildfowl in 
the county of Currituck from any box, battery or float of any kind not on land at the 
time. Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person to shoot any wildfowl over decoys 
of any kind in the waters of Currituck Sound between the 31st day of March and the 
1st day of November in each year; or to sell or to ship out of the State any wildfowl 
between said dates. Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, shoot, take 
or capture any wildfowl on any Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday between November 1 
and March 31, or to disturb any raft of wildfowl. Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any 
person to leave any landing or anchorage before sunrise in the morning for the purpose 
of hunting wildfowl or to put decoys or nets into the water before sunrise, or to continue 
to hunt wildfowl after dark. Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful to sail, row or propel a boat 
over Currituck Sound on the Lord's day for the purpose of locating wildfowl for a future 
day. Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person, hired or employed, to lay around, sail 
around or stop anywhere near any citizen who may be gunning or fishing, for the purpose 
of keeping them from shooting or damage his shooting. 

Chapter 245, Laws of 1899.— Sec. 6. That it shall be unlawful for any person to have 
more than one stationary bush blind standing in the waters of Currituck Sound between 
the hours of dark and sunrise on any day between November 1 and March 31. Sec. 7. 
That it shall be unlawful to skiff or ring shoot any boobies or ruddy duck between 

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November 1 and February 15. Sec. 8. All decked boats or float houses used for fishing 
must be anchored in the shoal water on west side of the Sound, not more than 300yds. 
from shore; or at some public landing on the east shore between Chanb's Island and 
Powell's Point. 

BIRDS.— Act March 6, 1903.— Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to kill or catch any wild 
bird other than a game bird, or to purchase, offer or expose for sale, transport or ship 
without the State any such wild bird after it has been killed or caught. For the purpose 
of this act, the following only shall be considered game birds: Loons and grebes, 
swans, geese, brant, river, fish and sea ducks, rails, coots, marsh hens, and gallinules, 
plovers, shore and surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, yellowlegs, chewink or 
towhee, and curlews; and the wild turkey, grouse, partridge, pheasant, quail, dove, 
robin and meadowlark. (b) The English or European house sparrow, owls, hawks, 
crows, blackbirds, jackdaws and rice-birds are not included among the birds protected 
by this act. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 7. No person or corporation shall knowingly receive for transporta- 
tion, or shall transport beyond the limits of this State, except for purposes of propaga- 
tion under permits issued by the Audubon Society of North Carolina, any of the par- 
tridges, pheasants, quails, or wild turkeys, snipe or woodcock, or non-game birds referred 
to in this act which have been killed or captured within this State. [See Sec. 11.] 
Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation within the State to deliver or 
to knowingly receive for transportation any package, box or other receptacle containing 
birds or game unless the same shall be labelled on the address side in plain letters with 
the name and address of the owner and consignor and with the kind or kinds of birds 
which the said package, box or other receptacle contains, or to falsely label the same. 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.— Sec. 10. On or after Sept. 1, 1903, a person who is a 
non-resident of the State of North Carolina who desires to hunt in any part of the said 
State shall make application for a hunter's license to the clerk of the Superior Court of 
any county in the State, and for such license he shall pay ten dollars; in addition 
thereto the clerk of the court may charge the applicant a fee of twenty-five cents for his 
services. Such license shall expire on the termination of the hunting season as fixed by 
law in the several counties. The forms of license therein required shall entitle the 
holder thereof to hunt anywhere in the State except upon private property without written 
consent of the owner, which license shall be issued by the clerks of the Superior Courts. 
And the said society may revoke the license of a non-resident upon satisfactory proof 
that such person has hunted in violation of the law, and no license shall be granted to a 
person whose license has been revoked for a period of one year thereafter. Such non- 
resident person shall carry with him his license, and shall upon demand exhibit it to 
any warden or police officer, and a refusal to so exhibit his license shall constitute an 
offense under this section. Each day that any non-resident shall hunt within the State 
without his having procured the required license shall constitute a separate offense. 
Sec. 11. Any person holding a hunter's license to hunt in North Carolina shall be per- 
mitted to take out of the State fifty partridges or quail in a season. 

CANADIAN TROUT EXPORT. 
Order in Council, May 13, 1901, 

No one shall receive, ship, transport or have in possession for the purpose of shipping 
or transporting out of the Dominion of Canada any speckled trout, river trout or sea 
trout, taken or caught in the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova 
Scotia and Prince Edward Island; Provided: 

(a) Any person may so ship such trout caught by him for sport, to the extent of 25 
pounds in weight, if the shipment is accompanied by a certificate to that effect from 
either the local fishery officer in whose district the fish were caught or from the local 
station agent adjacent to the locality in which they were caught, or is accompanied by a 
copy of the official license or permit issued to the person making the shipment. 

(b) No single package of such trout shall exceed 25 pounds in weight, nor shall any 
person be permitted to ship more than one package during the season. 

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CANADA. 

BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
Game Protection Act, 1898, as amended 1905. 

EXPORT.— 4. No person shall at any time export or cause to be exported or carried 
out of the limits of this Province, any or any portion of the animals or birds mentioned 
in this Act, in their raw state. Provided, That it shall be lawful for any person having 
a license under Section 15 of this Act to export, or cause to be exported, the heads, 
horns and skins of such animals mentioned in Section 9, subsection (6), of this Act, as 
have been legally killed by such license holder; provided that the provisions of this 
section shall not apply to bear, marten, or land otter. 

NIGHT, MOUNTAIN SHEEP HEADS, SWIVEL GUN.— 9. It shall be unlawful 
for any person at any time ^(a) To kill any game bird or animal protected by this 
Act between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, {b) To buy or sell the 
heads of mountain sheep, elk, moose or caribou, or the teeth of wapiti or elk. (c) To 
use, for taking or killing wild duck of any kind, or geese, contrivances described or 
known as batteries, swivel guns or sunken punts in non-tidal waters, (d) To expose for 
sale any deer, mountain sheep, goat, elk, moose or caribou without its head on, or any 
game bird without its plumage. 

SEASONS.— 10. It shall be unlawful to kill any of the game birds or animals during 
the close season and prohibited times of sale set out in the following schedule, both 
dates inclusive: Beaver, April 1— Nov. 1. Bittern, March 1— Aug. 31. Caribou, I an. 1— 
Aug. 31 (cow or calf at any time). Deer buck or doe, Dec. 15— Aug. 31 (fawn, any 
time). Ducks of all kinds, March 1— Aug. 31. Elk (wapiti) bull, Jan. 1— Aug. 31; 
cow or calf under two years old at any time. Grouse of all kinds, including prairie 
chicken, Jan. 1— Aug. 31. Hare, Jan. 1— Aug. 31. Heron, March 1— Aug. 31. Land 
otter and marten, April 1— Nov. 1. Meadow lark, March 1— Aug. 31. Moose bull, 
Jan. 1— Aug. 31; cow or calf under twelve months at any time. Mountain goat, Dec. 
15— Aug. 31. Mountain sheep ram, Dec. 15 — Aug. 31; ewe or lamb at any time. Eng- 
lish partridge, pheasant (cock or hen), quail of all kinds, at any time. Plover, March 
1— Aug. 31. Robin, skylark, thrush, English blackbird, insectivorous birds, at any 
time. 

LAWFUL NUMBERS.— Unlawful to take in one season more than 5 caribou, 10 deer, 
250 ducks, 2 elk, 2 moose, 5 mountain goats, 3 mountain sheep. 

NON-RESIDENT LICENSE.— 14. No person not a resident of and domiciled in 
this Province, other than officers and men of His Majesty's regular Army and Navy, 
or in the permanent corps of Canadian Militia for the time being in actual service in 
this Province, shall at any time hunt, kill or take any of the animals or game birds 
mentioned in this Act or any amendment thereto, in this Province, without having 
first obtained a license in that behalf, every such license may be signed and granted by 
the game warden or any Government agent in the Province, and shall be in force only 
for that shooting season for which the same has been issued; the fee to be paid there- 
for shall be fifty dollars. 15. Notwithstanding anything contained in the next preceding 
section, the game warden or any Government agent may grant permission in writing 
for a period not exceeding one week, to any person not a resident of this Province, 
permitting such person to hunt, take and kill any of the game birds mentioned in 
Schedule B to this Act; the fee for such permission shall be five dollars. 

DEER DOGS. — 27. No person shall at any time hunt deer with dogs. 

FISH.— Act Feb. 10, 1904.— Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful to take any trout of any 
species under six inches in length; and it shall be unlawful to take any trout of any 
species, except steelhead trout {Salmo gairdneri), between the 15th day of November and 
the 25th of March following; and it shall be unlawful to kill any steelhead trout above 
tidewater between the 15th day of November and the 25th day of March following. 

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MANITOBA. 
Game Protection Act, Chapter 66, R. S. M,, 1902. Amended 1905. 

SUNDAY.— Sec. -. JNo person shall on the Lord's Day, commonly known as Sunday, 
hunt, trap, take, shoot at, wound, kill or capture any of the animals or birds mentioned 
in this act. 

BIG GAME.— Sec. 3. No person shall kill any male deer, cabri or antelop.., elk or 
wapiti, moose, reindeer or cariboo, between the 15th day of December and the 1st day of 
December of the following year; and no person shall during any one year or season kill 
more in all than one of such animals, (a) No person shall kill any of the animals men- 
tioned in this section without first having obtained a permit to do so from the Minister 
of Agriculture and Immigration, or some person appointed by him to grant such permits, 
and paying a fee of '^ therefor; and every such person, while hunting any of such 
animals, shall carry such permit with him and produce the same on the demand of any 
game guardian or constable or justice of the peace, and he shall immediately after the 
close of the open season for such game return such permit to the Department of Agri- 
culture and Immigration, together with an affidavit, sworn before a justice of the peace 
or a commissioner for taking affidavits, showing the number of such animals shot or 
taken by him during said open season under such permit, and the sex thereof. Sec. 4. 
No person shall hunt, trap, take, shoot at, wound, kill, destroy or capture any female 
deer, cabri or antelope, elk or wapiti, moose, re'ideer or cariboo, or the fawns of such 
animals at any period of the year. 

FUR ANIMALS.— Sec. 5. No person shall huii.. shoot at, trap, take, wound, kill or cap- 
ture: (fl) Any otter or beaver; (b) fisher or pekan and sable, between the 15th day of May 
and the 1st day of October; or (c) marten between the 15th day of April and the 1st day 
of November. Sec. 6. No person shall hunt, trap, take, wound, kill or capture any 
musk-rat between the 8th day of May and the 1st day of January, and at no period shall 
such animals be shot or shot at. 

BIRDS.— Sec. 7. Except as in this act otherwise provided, no person shaP <ill: (a) 
Any grouse of any variety, prairie chicken or partridge between the 15th day c' November 
and the 15th day of September of the following year; and no pheasant at any time be- 
fore the 15th day of September, A. D. 19Uy; (b) any plover (other than upland plover), 
quail, woodcock, snipe or sandpiper, between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of 
August, or any upland plover between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July; 
or (c) ducks of any kind, between the 1st day of January and the 15th day of September. 
Sec. 8. No person shall, during any one year or season, kill more, in all, than one 
hundred of the birds mentioned in sub-section (a) of the last preceding section, nor more 
than twenty of such birds in any one day in any season or year. Sec. 9. Nothing in the 
two last preceding sections shall prevent the training of setters and pointers when ac- 
companied by their owners or trainers, provided that no such owner or trainer shall 
shoot at any of the said birds during the close season. 

NIGHT.— Sec. 12. No person shall kill or shoot at any of the animals or birds men- 
tioned in the 3d and 7th Sections of this act between one hour after sunset and one hour 
before sunrise. 

WILDFOWLING METHODS, BEAVER.— Sec. 14. None of the contrivances for 
taking or killing the wild fowl known as swans, geese or ducks, or any of the birds 
mentioned in sub-section (a) of Section 7, which contrivances are described or known as 
batteries, swivel guns, automatic guns, sunken punts or night lights, shall be in the 
possession of any person, nor shall they be used at any time; nor shall any beaver or 
musk-rat house be destroyed at any time; nor shall any spring gun be used to kill or 
destroy any animals hereinbefore mentioned. 

DOGS. — Sec. 16. No owner of any hound or other dog used by the owner, or known 
by the owner to be accustomed, to pursue deer, shall permit any such hound or other 
dog to run at large in any locality where deer are usually found, during the period from 
the 15th day of December to the 15th day of November of the following year. 

POSSESSION IN CLOSE SEASON.— Sec. 17. No person shall have in his posses- 

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sion any of the animals or birds mentioned in this act, no matter when or where procured, 
or any part of such animal or bird, during the period in which the same is protected, 
subject, however, to the following exceptions: Animals or birds, other than those men- 
tioned in sub-section (a) of the 7th Section of this act, in possession of any person for 
private use as a food for himself and family; the birds mentioned in sub-section (a) of 
the 7th Section of this act, during the first forty-five days of each close season; ducks 
of all kinds during the first three months of each close season. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 22. The Minister of Agriculture and Immigration may at his dis- 
cretion, issue permits for the export of any of the animals or birds mentioned in this 
act for the purpose of domestication, or the heads and skins of such animals, but not 
in any case to exceed two in number of any kind. JNo person shall at any time export 
any of the animals or birds mentioned in this act, except by virtue of a permit; and no 
such permit shall be issued allowing the export of more than one hundred geese or swans 
and fifty ducks, or for the export of any grouse or any variety of prairie chicken or 
partridge. 

NON-RESIDENTS. — Sec. 23. No person not a resident of and actually domiciled in 
the Province of Manitoba shall be entitled to hunt, trap, take, kill any animal or bird 
mentioned in this act, or any other bird or animal, whether protected by this act or not, 
without having previously obtained a license from the Minister of Agriculture and Im- 
migration, for which license a fee of $100 shall be payable, except such person be a 
British subject, in which case the license fee shall be $25. Sec. 24. Every such person 
shall, on the request of any game guardian, constable or peace officer within the 
Province, at all reasonable times, and as often as required, produce and exhibit such 
license to the ofificer making request. 

FISH.— General Fishery Regulations, July, 1889.— Sec. 1. No one shall catch any 
pickerel (dore) between the 15th day of April and the 15th day of May, both days in- 
clusive. Sec. 4. No one shall catch any speckled trout between the 1st day of October 
and the 1st day of January in each year. 

NEW BRUNSWICK. 

GAME SEASONS.— The Game Act [as amended 1905].— Sec. 3. Every one is guilty 
of an offense and liable to the penalty hereinafter provided, who, between the dates 
hereinafter in each case specified, exclusive of each date named in any part (unless other- 
wise provided) of this Province: (1) Hunts, takes, hurts, injures, traps, snares, shoots, 
wounds, kills or destroys 

(a) Any moose or caribou between the 30th day of November, in any year, and the 
15th day of September then next following. 

(b) Any deer in any part of the Province between the dates last mentioned. 

(d) Any partridge between the 30th day of November and the 15th day of September 
following. 

(e) Any wild goose, brant, teal, wood duck, dusky duck, commonly called black 
duck (except as otherwise provided in Section 8), between the 1st day of December, in 
any year, and the 1st day of Septeml^er then next following. 

(f) Any snipe or woodcock, between the dates last mentioned. 

(g) Any shore or other birds, on, or along, the beaches, islands, or lagoons, border- 
ing the tidal waters of the counties along Northumberland Strait, the Gulf of Saint 
Lawrence, and the Bay of Chaleur, between the 31st day of December and the 1st day of 
September. 

(/») Any wild black duck, wood duck, teal duck, or other kind of wild duck, or any 
snipe, wild goose, or other wild fowl after sunset and before sunrise, any time between 
the 1st day of August and the 1st day of December in any year, in or upon certain 
marsh lands in the Parish of Shediac, in the county of Westmorland. 

(;■) Any beaver before the 1st day of July, A.D. 1907. 

Sec. 4. Every one is guilty of an offense and liable to the penalty hereinafter provided, 
who, at any time or season hereafter, in any part of the Province (1) hunts, takes, hurts, 
injures, traps, snares, shoots, wounds, kills or destroys any calf moose under the age of 

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two years, or any cow moose, or cow caribou, or who has in possession the carcass of any 
calf moose, cow moose, cow caribou, or any portion thereof; any game on Sunday; any 
game in any park, pleasure resort, land or forest now or hereafter set apart or reserved for 
public park purposes; any sea gull, pheasant or any small birds which frequent the 
fields and woods (except such birds as to which special provisions are made in this 
chapter, and excepting also blackbirds, crows and English sparrows), or removes, dam- 
ages, or destroys the nest or eggs thereof; any moose, caribou or deer by means of. 
through the use of, or with the assistance of any artificial light or lights; any wild 
goose, brant, teal, wood duck, dusky duck, commonly called black duck, with or by 
means of any punt gun or swivel gun (not including the ordinary musket or fowling 
piece), or by means of, through the use of, or with the assistance of, any net or nets, 
or artificial light or lights; any moose, caribou or deer through the means of, with' the 
assistance of, or when such person is accompanied by any dog. 

FIREARMS IN GAME COUMTRY.— Sec. 4, Sub-Sec. (7).— No person shall bring or 
carry in or upon any forest, wood or other resort for moose or caribou, any gun or 
other firearm between the 30th day of November and the 15th day of September following 
without first having obtained from a game warden a permit so to do. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 6. Every person shall be guilty of an ofTense, and liable to the penalty 
herinafter provided, who, at any time, kills any partridge for the purpose of exporting 
the same, or (2) exports out of New Brunswick, any partridge killed within the Province. 

MOOSE, CARIBOU, DEER.-Sec. 7. Every one is guilty of an offense, and liable to the 
penalty hereinafter provided, who, during any open season for moose, caribou or deer (1) 
Hunts, takes, shoots, wounds, kills or destroys (a) Any moose, caribou and deer with- 
out being the holder of a license so to do, as provided for in Section 44. (b) Being the 
holder of such license, more than the number of moose or caribou in such license stated. 

(c) More than two deer, (rf) Any moose, caribou or deer in the night time; that is 
to say, between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise. (2) Being a non- 
resident, and not then holding a license so to do, as provided in Section 44, accompanies 
in the woods, or acts as camp help for any person hunting or intending to hunt 
moose or caribou. (3) Being a resident, and not then holding an unexpired license 
so to do, as approved in Section 44, accompanies in the woods as a guide, any person 
hunting or intending to hunt moose or caribou. (4) Whether licensed or unlicensed, 
resident or non-resident, accompanies in the woods as a guide, any unlicensed person 
hunting or intending to hunt moose or caribou. (5) Being a non-resident of the Prov- 
ince, hunts within the county of Westmorland, any deer, mink, fisher, sable, muskrat 
or beaver, or any game birds mentioned in Section 3 of this chapter, without being the 
holder of a license so to do, as provided by Section 44. 

LICENSES. — Sec. 44. The Surveyor-General, chief game commissioner or any warden, 
may issue licenses as follows: (a) A license to take one bull moose and one bull caribou 
or two deer, (b) A license to accompany in the woods as a guide, any person hunting 
or intending to hunt moose or caribou, (f) A license to accompany in the woods, or 
act as camp help for any person hunting or intending to hunt moose or caribou. 

(d) A license to hunt, take and kill, within the county of Westmorland any game as 
mentioned and provided in Section 7 (5) of this chapter. Sec. 46 (2) Every person non- 
resident- in the province making application for any license under Section 44, shall, at or 
before delivery of the same, pay therefor a license fee of $50: Provided, however, 
That no license under clause (ft) of said Section 44 shall be issued to any non-resident. 

[A person who has a license under clause (6) shall not be entitled to a license under 
clause (a) during the time the license under clause (ft) is in force.] 

NON-RESIDENT MUST HAVE GUIUE.-Chap. 27, Laws 1905.-Sec. 12. No non- 
resident of the Province shall enter into or upon any woods, forests or wild lands of 
the Province for the purpose of hunting or killing any moose, caribou or deer, without 
being in charge of a registered guide, and no registered guide shall at the same time 
guide or be employed by more than five persons in hunting. 

EXPORT.— Sec. 49. The Surveyor-General may issue licenses not inconsistent with 
any law of the Dominion of Canada, authorizing the exportation from the Province, or 
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the transportation within the Province of any game, whether alive or dead; and the Sur- 
veyor-General may also issue licenses permitting the taking or killing oi any game 
within the Province for specimens of natural history, or for scientific investigation. 

FISH.— Sec. 7. Salmon shall not be killed between the 15th day of August and the 1st 
day of March ensuing; providing always, that it shall be lawful to kill salmon with a rod 
and line in the manner known as fly-surface fishing, between the 1st day of February and 
the 15th day of August. In non-tidal waters frequented by salmon no one shall fish 
for, catch or kill salmon, or any other fish, between 9 o'clock in the evening of Saturday 
and 6 o'clock on Monday morning. Sec. 11. No person shall catch any speckled trout, 
lake trout or landlocked salmon between the 15th day of September and the 1st day of 
May in each year, both days inclusive. [See "Angling Permits," last page index.] 

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. 
Game Ordinance as Amended 1903, 

SUNDAY.— No person shall hunt or kill any beasts or birds on Sunday. 

BIG GAME.— No person shall kill any bison or buffalo at any tinie; any mountain 
sheep or goat between the 15th day of December and the 1st day of October following; 
prong-horn antelope between the 15th day of November and the 1st day of October follow- 
ing; any of the deer family, whether known as caribou, moose, elk, wapiti, deer, or 
otherwise, in that portion of Assiniboia lying south of township 22 and east of range 23 
west of the 2d meridian, between the 30th day of November and 15th day of November 
in the following year, and not more than two of such animals; and in other parts of the 
Territories between the 15th day of December and the 1st day of November in the follow- 
ing year, and not more than three animals of any one species of such family; nor any 
female or the young thereof under one year of age, of any of the above-mentioned animals 
at any time. 

BIRDS.— No person shall kill any Anatida:, commonly known as ducks, geese and 
swans, between the 5th of May and the 23d of August; Gruida, commonly known as 
cranes, between the 1st of January and the 1st of August; Kallida, commonly known as 
rails and coots, between the 5th of May and the 23d of August; Limicolte, commonly 
known as shore birds, including snipe and sandpiper, plover and curlew, between the 
5th of May and the 23d of August; Galliiice, commonly known as grouse, partridge, 
pheasant, ptarmigan, prairie chicken, between the 15th of December and the 15th of Sep- 
tember following. No English pheasant shall be taken or killed at any time; nor shall 
more than twenty birds of the family of Gallina be killed by one person in any one day, 
nor more than 200 in a season. 

FUR. — No person shall kill any mink, fisher or martin between the 1st of April and the 
1st of November, or otter between the 1st of May and the 1st of November, or muskrat 
between the 15th of May and the 1st of November, or beaver before December 31, 1908. 

NIGHT.— No person shall hunt or kill any big game or game birds between one hour 
after sunset and one hour before sunrise. 

GUNS. — No person shall at any time use for the destruction or capture of game 
birds any swivel, spring, automatic or machine shotguns. 

EXPORT.— No person shall at any time or in any manner export or cause to be ex- 
ported from the Territories any big game or game birds without having obtained per- 
mission from the commissioner. 

LICENSE. — No person not a resident of and domiciled in the Territories shall be en- 
titled to hunt or take any big game or game bird without having first obtained a license 
from the Commissioner, in force for the calendar year; fee $25 for a general license and $15 
for a bird license. The holder shall be entitled to take with him out of the Territories 
as trophies the head, skin and hoofs of any big game that have been legally killed by 
him. A license good for five days may be issued without cost to a non-resident guest of a 
resident. 

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NEWFOUNDLAND. 
The Preservation of Deer Act, 1902, as Amended 1903. 

MOOSE, ELK.— Sec. 3.— No person shall kill any moose or elk at any time before the 
1st day of January, 1912. 

CARIBOU.— Sec. 6. No person shall kill any caribou from the 1st day of February to 
the 31st day of July, both days inclusive, or from the 1st day of October to the 20th day of 
October, both days inclusive. Sec. 7. No person other than a licensee under this act, 
shall during the time by this act allowed for killing caribou, kill or take more than two 
stag and one doe caribou in any one year. Sec. 8. The Governor in Council, upon the 
recommendation of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, may define the boundaries of a 
tract or section of land in this colony along the line of railway from Goose Brook to 
Grand Lake, and extending five miles on either side of the said line of railway, and it 
shall be unlawful for any person to kill any caribou at any place within the boundaries so 
defined. 

LICENSES. — Sec. 10. No person not actually domiciled in this colony shall kill in any 
season any caribou without having first procured a license for the season; nor shall more 
than one license be granted in any one year to any one person. Sec. 11. Licenses to kill 
caribou shall only be issued by a Stipendiary Magistrate, a Justice of the Peace, ap- 
pointed under this act, or the Minister, or Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries. A 
fee of one dollar for each license shall be paid. Sec. 13. Any person not domiciled in 
this colony shall be entitled to kill caribou, as hereinafter provided, on taking out a 
license for which a fee of fifty dollars shall be paid, and such license shall entitle 
the holder thereof to kill not more than three stag caribou. Sec. 14. Licenses shall be 
issued to all guides in the form of schedules 2 and 3 to this act by any of the persons 
named in Section 11, but the fee of one dollar in the said section mentioned shall not be 
charged. Every non-domiciled guide shall pay for such license a fee of $50. Sec. 15. No 
person holding a license to hunt, kill or pursue caribou shall employ as a guide, laborer 
or bearer in a hunting expedition any person who has not obtained a license under the 
next preceding section. 

EXPORT. — Sec. 19. Save as provided in this act, no person shall export the antlers, 
heads, or skin of any caribou, nor shall the owner, master, officers or crew of any vessel 
permit the exportation therein of any such antlers, head or skin, or any part thereof, save 
as provided and under a permit of a Customs officer. Sec. 21. Any person holding a 
license to kill caribou may export the carcasses, antlers, head or any part of any caribou 
killed under the said license, upon entering the same at the Customs House for exporta- 
tion and receiving a permit therefor. Sec. 22. No person holding a license to kill caribou 
shall export from this colony the carcasses, heads or antlers, of more than three stag 
caribou. Sec. 23. Any person not holding a license to kill caribou, but who is domiciled 
in this colony, may export the antlers, heads or skins of caribou upon entering the same for 
exportation at a Customs House in the colony and receiving a special permit therefor. 
Sec. 27. It shall be lawful for the Minister of Marine and Fisheries to authorize the 
capture and exportation of caribou alive by any means, for the purposes of domestication, 
and the killing of any caribou and exportation of the same, or any part thereof for the 
purpose of sale and of exchange to and with the game societies, or to museums, societies, 
or institutions in other countries. 

MODES OF HUNTING.-Sec. 26. Any person who shall hereafter hunt, chase, kill, 
or pursue with intent to kill, any caribou: (1) With dogs; or (2) With hatchet, toma- 
hawk, spear, machine, contrivance or weapon, other than firearms loaded with ball or 
bullet; or (3) While swimming or crossing any pond, lake, stream, river or watercourse; 
Shall be liable to a fine of $100 in addition to any penalties to which he may be otherwise 
liable under this act. 

BIRDS.— Act of the Preservation of Game.— Sec. 1. No person shall kill any ptarmigan 
or willow grouse (commonly called partridge), or take the eggs of any such birds between 
the IL'th day of January and the 1st day of October. Sec. 2. No person shall kill any 

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curlew, plover, snipe or other wild or migratory birds (excepting wild geese), or take the 
eggs of any such birds between the 12th day of January and the 20th day of August. 

RABBIT, HARE.— Sec. 3. Mo person shall kill any wild rabbit or hare from the 1st 
day of March until the 15th day of September. 

OTTER, BEAVER, FOX.— Sec. 5. No person shall kill any otter or beaver between 
the 1st day of April and the 1st day of October. [Beaver protected to 1907. Foxes pro- 
tected from March 15th to October 15th.] 

SUNDAY.— Sec. 10. Any person, except a traveler on a journey, found on Sunday 
carrying firearms, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $40, and in default of payment 
to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month. 

SALMON, TROUT.— Fishing Regulations 1901.— Sec. 76. No person shall catch, kill, 
or take any salmon or trout in any river, brook, stream, pond or lake in Newfoundland, 
between the 15th day of September and the 15th day of January next following in any year. 



NOVA SCOTIA. 

MOOSE.— Close season from January 1st to September 15th. No person shall kill 
more that two moose. Meat must be taken out within ten days from killing. No 
person shall hunt moose with dogs. All dogs so hunting may be destroyed by any 
person. 

CARIBOU AND DEER.— No person shall hunt or kill any caribou or deer before 
October 1st, 1905. 

WOODCOCK, SNIPE, TEAL, BLUE-WINGED DUCK, WOOD DUCK.-Close 
season from March 1st to September 1st, save in Cape Breton, where close season for all 
birds, except partridge, is March 1st to August 20th. For Cumberland county, close season 
for ducks is from May 1st to September 1st. No person shall kill any game bird 
(excepting blue-winged ducks) between sunset and sunrise. 

PARTRIDGE.— Close season for partridges from December 1st to October 1st. 

PHEASANT, SPRUCE PARTRIDGE, SHARP-TAILED GROUSE protected at all 
times. 

RABBITS, HARES.— Close season from February 1st to October 15th. No person 
shall have them in possession from February 1st to October 15th. 

BEAVER.— Unlav/ful to hunt or kill at any time. 

MINK. — Close season, March 1st to November 1st. For all other fur-bearing animals, 
from April 1st to November 1st. The following animals are not protected, viz. : Bear, 
wolf, loupcervier, wild cat, skunk, musquash, raccoon, fox, woodchuck, .otter and weasel. 
Unlawful to hunt any of the foregoing animals with dogs between February 1st and 
October 1st. 

LICENSES.— No person not domiciled in Nova Scotia shall hunt without a license. 
License fee for birds, hares and rabbits, $10; moose, $30; for all game, $40. Licenses may 
at Provincial Secretary's office, Halifax, from all clerks of counties, and from the agents 
of the Game Society in various parts of the Province. The hunter, guide or companion 
of any such person hunting without license is liable to same fine as the person himself. 

EXPORT OF GAME.— Unlawful to export from Canada, deer, wild turkey, quail, 
partridge, prairie fowl, woodcock. Unlawful to export out of the Province any of the 
animals or birds included in the word "game." Provided, That the holder of a general 
or moose license may take away with him any moose or caribou lawfully killed by himself. 

SALMON.— Close season from August 15th to March 1st, except that salmon may be 
fished with fly from February 1st to August 15th. From low water nearest 6 o'clock 
P. M. of every Saturday, to low water nearest 6 A. M. of following Monday, no one 
shall fish for salmon in tidal waters. In non-tidal waters frequented by salmon, no one 
shall fish for any kind of fish between 9 P. M. of Saturday and 6 A. M. of Monday. 
Close season in Cape Breton from August 31st to February 1st. 

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TROUT, ETC.— Unlawful to fish for or to have in possession any speckled trout 
iSalvelinus fontinalis), lake trout or landlocked salmon between October 1st and April 1st. 

BASS.— Close season, from March 1st to October 1st, except that bass may be fished 
for at all times by angling with hook and line. 

FOREIGNERS.— No person not a British subject shall fish in Canadian waters for 
bass, pike, perch or trout, without an angler's permit. Permit, $5 for three months, $10 
for six months. Permit not transferable, and must be shown when asked for by fishery 
officer. No person holding a permit shall kill in one day more than twelve bass, pike 
or perch, or twenty trout. 

ONTARIO. 
The Ontario Game Protection Act, 1900, as amended 1905. 

NON-RESIDENTS.— Sec. 3. (1) No person not being resident and domiciled in the 
Province of Ontario shall hunt, take, kill, wound or destroy any game bird or animal 
except upon the terms and conditions of a license to be first obtained in that behalf as 
hereinafter provided. (2) The Commissioner of Crown Lands may grant a special permit 
to enable a guest of a resident of the Province to hunt and shoot therein without a license 
for a term not exceeding one week. 

DEER.— Sec. 4. (1) No deer shall be killed between the 15th day of November and the 
1st day of November of the following year. 

MOOSE. — (2) No moose, reindeer or caribou shall be hunted, taken or killed in that 
part of Ontario lying to the south of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, from 
the town of Mattawa to the JNlanitoba boundary, except from the 1st day of November 
to the 15th day of November, both days inclusive, in each year. Throughout all that part 
of the Province lying to the north of the said main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway 
from Mattawa to the Manitoba boundary, the open season for moose, reindeer or caribou 
shall be from the 16th day of October to the 15th day of November, both days inclusive, 
in each year. 

ELK.— (3) No elk or wapiti shall be hunted, taken or killed at any time in Ontario. 

GAME BIRDS, SQUIRREL, HAKE.— (4) No person shall kill (a) any grouse, 
pheasant, prairie fowl or partridge, woodcock, black and gray squirrels between the 15th 
day of December and the 15th day of September in the following year; {b) any quail or 
wild turkeys between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of November of the 
following year; (c) any swans or geese between the 1st day of May and the 15th day of 
September of the same year; (d) ducks of all kinds or any other water fowl between the 
15th day of December and the 1st day of September of the following year; (e) snipe, rail, 
plover or any other birds known as shore birds or waders between the 15th day of 
December and the 15th day of September; (/) capercailzie before 1909; (g) hares be- 
tween the 31st day of December and the 1st day of October in the following year. 

WILD TURKEYS, PHEASANTS.-(5) Nothwithstanding anything in this section con- 
tained no wild turkeys shall be hunted, taken or killed at any time before the 15th day 
of October, 1905, and no prairie fowl or English or Mongolian pheasants before the 15th 
day of September, 1910. 

COTTONTAIL RABBITS.— (6) Notwithstanding anything in this act, any person may 
during close season take or kill the wood hare or cottontail rabbit by any other means 
than by the use of guns or other firearms. 

BEAVER, OTTER, MUSKRAT.— Sec. 5. (1) No beaver or otter shall be killed before 
the 1st day of November 1910. (2) No muskrat shall be killed between the 1st day of 
May and the 1st day of January of the following year. 

SUNDAY.— Sec. 6. No person shall, on the Lord's Day, hunt, take, kill or destroy 
any game animal or bird, or use any gun or other engine for that purpose. 

DEER, MOOSE, CARIBOU.— Sec. 8. (1) No person shall kill any deer, moose, rein- 
deer or caribou, except ui)on the terms and conditions of a license to be first obtained 
in that behalf, as hereinafter provided. (2) No person shall at any time hunt, kill or 

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take any cow moose, or any fawn or young deer, moose, reindeer or caribou under the 
age of one year. (New.) (3) No person shall during any one year or season kill or take 
more in all than two deer, one bull moose or one bull reindeer or caribou. (4) No person 
shall kill any deer while in, or immediately after leaving any river, lake or other water, or 
with intent so to do, hunt or pursue the same. This sub-section shall apply only to that 
portion of the County of Bruce known as the Indian Peninsula. (5) Hunting or killing 
deer or moose by what is known as "crusting," or while they are "yarding," is hereby 
declared unlawful. (6) No owner of any hound, or other dog, known by the owner to be 
accustomed to pursue deer, shall permit any such hound or dog to run at large in any 
locality where deer are usually found, during the close season for deer. 

WATER FOWL.— Sec. 9. (1) No wild dncks, geese or other water fowl, shall be killed 
from sailboats, yachts or launches propelled by steam or other power. (2) No decoys for 
wild ducks or geese shall be placed at a greater distance than seventy-five yards from the 
shore, or from some natural growth of reeds or rushes in which a blind may be made. 
(3) No swivel guns, or guns of any kind of a larger bore or gauge than 10, and none of 
the contrivances for taking or killing wild swans, geese or ducks, which are described or 
known as sunken punts, skegs, monitors or batteries, shall be used at any time. 

NIGHT SHOOTING.— Sec. 11. No person shall discharge any gun or other firearm 
at any game bird or animal between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before 
sunrise according to the times given for sunset and sunrise in the Canadian Almanac. 

SHOOTING FOR HIRE.— Sec. 12. No person shall for hire, gain or hope of reward, 
hunt, kill or shoot any game birds or animals, or employ, hire or for valuable considera- 
tion induce any other person so to do. Provided, That this shall not be held to apply to 
the bona fide employment of any person as guide to accompany any person lawfully 
hunting or shooting in this Province. 

TRANSPORTATION AND EXPORTATION OF GAME.— Sec. 16. (1) No common 
carrier or other person shall transport of receive or have in possession for any purpose 
in this Province any deer, moose, elk, reindeer or caribou, or any head, skin or other 
part thereof unless there is attached thereto one of the shipping coupons belonging to 
a license authorizing the shipper to hunt or kill the same as provided in this act, to- 
gether with an affidavit of the shipper (if required) that the same was legally hunted or 
taken, and no such common carrier or other person shall transport or receive or have in 
his possession for that purpose in this Province any deer, elk or reindeer, or any head, 
skin or other part thereof between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of November 
in the year following, or any moose or caribou or any head, skin or part thereof be- 
tween the 1st day of December and the 16th day of October in the year following. 

EXPORT BY NON-RESIDENT.— (4) Any non-resident who may at any time be 
entitled to hunt or shoot within the Province of Ontario by virtue of a license under 
this act, shall, so far as the authority of the Legislature of the Province of Ontario 
extends, be at liberty to export out of the Province in any one season game actually 
killed by him as follows: Deer (not exceeding two), duck (not exceeding 100); but a 
shipping coupon attached to such license as hereinafter provided must be attached to 
every such deer and to every parcel or package containing such other game, and such 
person must, if required by any warden or deputy warden, make a statutory declaration 
of the fact that such game has been lawfully killed by him. 

See "Export of Game" under Canada in index. 

PRESERVES.— Sec. 17. (1) No person shall at any time kill any partridge, prairie 
fowl, quail, woodcock, snipe, wild turkey or other bird or fowl whatsoever, within the 
boundaries of the Rondeau Provincial Park. (2) The preceding sub-section of this sec- 
tion shall not prevent or apply to the shooting or taking of wild duck or geese in the 
waters around and along the coasts of said park during the lawful season. (4) No person 
shall take into the Temagami Preserve during the close season for moose, reindeer or 
caribou, any gun, rifle, Mauser or other automatic pistol, or any revolver or other fire- 
arm having a barrel of a greater length than 4 inches. 

HUNTING LICENSES.— Sec. 25. (1) The Chief Warden shall issue licenses to per- 
sons applying therefor for the purposes and upon payment of the fees hereinafter specified; 
(a) Authorizing persons not resident and domiciled in the Province of Ontario to hunt 

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and shoot therein, subject in all respects to the provisions of this act. License fee, $25. 
(ft) Authorizing residents of the Province of Ontario to hunt deer, subject in all respects 
to the provisions of this act. License fee, $2. (f) Authorizing residents of the Province 
of Ontario to hunt moose, reindeer or caribou, subject in all respects to the provisions 
of this act. License fee, $10. (2) Every person who has obtained a license under this 
section shall at all times when hunting carry such license on his person, and shall at all 
reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested produce and show the same to any 
person requesting him so to do. 

SHIPPING COUPONS.— Sec. 2G. (1) There shall be attached to every license two 
shipping coupons, and when any deer, moose, reindeer or caribou, or any part thereof, or 
any game for export is presented for shipment at any railway station, steamboat landing 
or other point of shipment, one of the said coupons shall be signed and detached by the 
person to whom the license is issued. (2) The Chief Warden, if satisfied that more than 
two shipping coupons will reasonably be required by a non-resident applying for a 
license, may issue to such non-resident an additional duplicate license upon payment of 
additional fee, and subject to such conditions as may be established by regulation of the 
Board of Game Commissioners. 

ONTARIO FISHING REGULATIONS. 

PICKEREL.— General Fishery Regulations, July 18, 1889.— Sec. 1. No one shall catch 
any pickerel (dore) between the 15th day of April and the 15th day of May, both days 
inclusive. 

MASKINONGE. — Sec. 2. No one shall catch any maskinonge between the 15th day of 
April and the 15th day of June, both days inclut've. 

WHITEFISH, SALMON-TROUT.— Sec. 3. No one shall catch any whitefish or 
salmon-trout between the 1st and 30th days of November, both days inclusive. 

SPECKLED TROUT.— Sec. 4. No one shall catch any speckled trout between the 
15th day of September and the 30th day of April, both days inclusive. 

BASS.— Order in Council, May 13, 1893.— Sec. 2. The close season for bass in the 
Province of Ontario and Quebec shall be from the 15th day of April to the 15th day of 
June, both days inclusive, in each and every year. 

LIMIT OF CATCH.— Order in Council, May 30, 1904.— Sec. 9. No one shall f^sh for. 
catch or kill, in any of the waters of the Province, in one day by angling, or shall carry 
away a greater number than eight small or large-nfouthed black bass, four maskinonge, 
twelve pickerel (dore) or four lake trout. Sec. 10. No one shall fish for, catch or kill 
in any of the waters of the Province, in one day by angling, or shall carry away a greater 
number of speckled trout or brook trout than in the aggregate shall weigh more than 
ten pounds, and no greater number than thirty speckled trout or brook trout, though 
said number weigh less than ten pounds. 

SIZES.— Sec. 11. No small or large-mouthed black bass less than ten inches in length; 
no speckled trout less than six inches in length; no pickerel (dore) less than fifteen 
inches in length, or no maskinonge less than thirty inches in length shall be retained or 
kept out of the water; but any one who catches any of the fish mentioned of less than 
the minimum measurement named — which measurement shall be from the point of the 
nose to the center of the tail — shall immediately return such fish to the water from which 
it was taken, alive and uninjured. 

SALE, EXPORT. — Sec. 12. The sale and export of speckled trout, black bass and 
maskinonge, is hereby prohibited for a period of five years from the date of this Order 
in Council, provided, however, that any person from a foreign country, fishing in the 
waters of the Province, and applying and paying for an angler's permit, may, upon 
leaving the Province, when the same are accompanied by him, take with him the lawful 
catch of two days' fishing. 

NEPIGON.— Sec. 51. 1.— No one shall fish in the wafers of Lake Nepigon in the 
District of Thunder Bay, in the River Nepigon in the same district, nor in any tributaries 
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of the said lake or river, without first having obtained a permit or license from the 
Commissioner of Fisheries through the local overseer at Nepigon. 2.— (a) One license 
only may be issued to any applicant, and shall not be for a longer period than four 
weeks from the date of issue, (b) The fee for such license shall be $15 for a period of two 
weeks or less, $20 for three weeks and $25 for four weeks, where the applicant is not a 
permanent resident of Canada; and $5 for two weeks and $10 for four weeks where the 
applicant is a permanent resident of Canada. 
NON RESIDENT ANGLING PERMITS.-See below. 

ANGLERS' PERMITS IN INLAND WATERS OF CANADA. 
Order in Council, Adopted June 30, 1894. 

1. No person, other than a British subject, shall angle for, fish or take any bass, 
maskinonge, pike-perch (pickerel) or trout, in Canadian waters, without having first 
obtained therefor an angler's permit, issued by the local fishery officer in each district, 
under the authority of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 

2. Each person, not a British subject, shall pay for such angler's permit, a fee of $5 
for a period of three months, or a fee of $10 for a period of six months. 

3. One angler's permit only shall be issued to each applicant. Such permit shall 
not be transferrable, and can be legally used only by the person whose name appears 
thereon. Each holder of an angler's permit shall be required to produce and exhibit his 
permit when called upon to do so by any fishery officer. 

4. No per-i-cn shall use, under an angler's permit, more than one fishing line, pro- 
vided with not more than three hooks. 

5. No person shall, under an angler's permit, take, catch or kill in one day, more 
than 12 bass or pike-perch (pickerel), 20 trout, or 4 maskinonge. 

6. No bass or pike-perch (pickerel) shall be retained or kept out of the water, which 
shall measure less than 10 inches in length, and no trout shall be retained or kept out 
of the water under 6 inches in" length, but every person who takes or catches any of the 
fish mentioned, of a less size than the minimum measurement named, shall immediately 
return such undersized fish to the water from which they were taken, and shall, if pos- 
sible, liberate such fish alive. 

7. No person holding an angler's permit shall export, sell, or otfer for sale any fish 
caught with hook and line. 

9. Nothing in these Regulations shall affect the rights of any person or persons 
holding leases of fii-hing rights from either the Federal or Provincial authorities. 

10. Foreigners, when temporarily domiciled in Canada, and employing Canadian boats 
and boatmen, shall be exempt from the Regulations requiring permits. 

[IN THOUSAND ISLAND waters angling permits are now required.] 

CANADIAN DUTY ON SPORTSMEN'S OUTFITS. 

MEMORANDUM.— No. 923 B.— Customs Department, Ottawa, 1st July, 1897.— Persons 
visiting Canada for a limited period of time, for health or pleasure, may bring with them 
such guns, fishing rods, canoes, tents, camp equipment, cooking utensils, musical in- 
struments, kodaks, etc., as they require while in Canada for their own use and not for 
gain or hire, upon reporting same to the Customs Officer at the port of entry and de- 
positing with him a sum of money equal to the duty on such articles, subject to a refund, 
of such sum, provided the articles are exported within six months from time of entry, and 
reported outward and identified at the customs port where reported inward, or at 
another port. [The duty is 30 per cent, of the appraised value.] 

Members of shooting and fishing clubs owning preserves in Canada are permitted to 
take their equipment into the Dominion without payment of duty or deposit of bond, 
upon presentation of their club membership certificate if the club has filed a guarantee 
with the Commissioner of Customs; Provided, however, That duty shall be paid on 
ammunition and provisions brought in. 

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QUEBEC. 

HUNTING ZONES.— Quebec Game Laws, 1899.— 1395a. For the purpose of this 
act, which may be cited as the "Uuebec Game Laws," the province of Quebec is divided 
for hunting purposes, into two zones, known respectively as Zone No. 1 and Zone No. 2. 

Zone No. 1 comprises the whole province, less that part of the counties of Chicoutimi 
and Saguenay to the east and north of the river Saguenay. 

Zone No. 2 comprises that part of the counties of Chicoutimi and Saguenay to the east 
and north of the river Saguenay. 

Prohibitions in Zone No. i. 

MOOSE, CARIBOU, DEER.— 1396. It is forbidden: 1. To kill deer and moose 
between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of September of any year, except in 
the counties of Ottawa and Pontiac, where it is forbidden to kill them between the 1st 
day of December of any year and the 1st day of October of the following year; 

2. To kill caribou, between the 1st day of February and the 1st day of September; 

3. To make use of dogs for hunting moose, caribou and deer; but red deer may be 
so hunted, between the 20th of October and the 1st of November; 

4. To kill moose and deer while yarding or by what is known as "crusting;" 

5. To hunt, kill or take, at any time, fawns up to the age of one year of any of the 
animals mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article; 

6. To hunt, kill or take, at any time, any cow-moose. 
TRANSPORTATION.— 1397. After the fist fifteen days of the close season all railway, 

steamboat and other companies, and public carriers, are forbidden to carry any moose, 
caribou or deer, the whole or any part of the flesh of such animal or the green hide 
thereof. Nevertheless, it is lawful for the Commissioner, at any time, to grant transport 
permits. For such permits there may be exacted a fee, the amount whereof shall not 
exceed five dollars. 

NUMBER.— 1398. No person shall, in one season's hunting, kill or take alive more 
than one moose, two deer and two caribou. 

The Commissioner may grant to any person domiciled in the Province, on payment 
of a fee of five dollars, a permit to take not more than three additional caribou and three 
•additional de.'.r. 

FUR ANIMALS.— 1399. It is forbidden to hunt, kill or take: 1. Any beaver at any 
time up to the 1st day of November, 1902, and, after that date, between the 1st day of 
April and the 1st of November of any year; 2. Any mink, otter, marten, pekan, fox 
or raccoon, between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of November in any year. 
Foxes known as yellow or red foxes may, however, at all times be hunted, killed or 
taken; 3. Any hare, between the 1st day of February and the 1st day of November in 
any year, or any bear between the 1st day of July and the 20th day of August in any 
year; 4. Any musk-rat, between the 1st day of May of any year and the 1st day of March 
of the following year. 

GAME BIRDS.— 1400. It is forbidden: L To kill: a. Any woodcock, snipe, plover, 
curlew, tatler or sandpiper, between the 1st day of February and the 1st day of September, 
in each year; birch- or swamp-partridge, between the 15th day of December and the 1st 
day of September in each year, and white partridge, ptarmigan, between the 1st day of 
February and the 1st day of November in any year. 

/). Any widgeon, teal or wild duck of any kind, except sheldrake, loons and gulls, 
between the 1st of March and the 1st of September of any year; 

c. At any time of the year, between one hour after sunset and one hovir before sun- 
rise, in any manner whatever, any woodcock, snipe, partridge, widgeon, teal or wild 
duck of any kind; and, during such prohibited hours, it is also forbidden to keep ex- 
posed under any pretext, any lures or decoys near a cache, boat or bank. 

OTHER BIRDS.— 1401. It is forbidden, at all times, to shoot or kill and, between the 
1st day of March and the 1st day of September, in each year, to take, by means of nets, 
traps, springs, snares, cages or otherwise, any of the birds known as perchers, such as 
swallows, kingbirds, warblers, flycatchers, woodpeckers, whippoorwills, finches (song 

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sparrows, red-birds, indigo birds, &c.), cow-buntings, titmice, goldfinches, grives (robins, 
wood-thrushes, &c.), kinglets, bobolinks, grakles, grosbeaks, humming-birds, cuckoos, 
&c., or to take their nests or eggs, except eagles, falcons, hawks and other birds of 
the falconida, owls, wild-pigeons, kingfishers, crows, ravens, waxwings (recollets), shrikes, 
jays, magpies, sparrows and starlings. 

Prohibitions in Zone No. 2. 

MOOSE, DEER, BIRDS.— 1401b. Saving when it is otherwise provided in this para- 
graph, all the provisions respecting" hunting in Zone No. 1 apply to hunting in Zone 
No. 2. 

CARIBOU.— 1401c. It is forbidden to kill caribou, between the 1st day of March and 
the 1st day of September in any year. 1401d. No person shall, in one season's hunting, 
kill or take alive more than four caribou. 

FUR.— 1401e. It is forbidden to kill: 1. Any otter, between the 15th day of April 
and the 15th day of October in any year; 2. Any hare, between the 1st day of March 
and the 15th day of October; 'i. Any musk-rat, between the 1st day of April and the 
1st day of November. 

PARTRIDGE, PTARMIGAN.— 1401f. It is forbidden to kill: 1. Any birch- or 
swamp-partridge between the 1st day of February and the 15th day of September; 2. Any 
white partridge (ptarmigan) between the 1st day of March and the 15th day of November. 

General Provisions. 

BORE OF GUN.— 1403. it is forbidden, in hunting any of the birds mentioned in 
articles 1400 and 1401f to make use of any fire-arm of a calibre greater than 8. 

DOGS IN THE DEER COUNTRY.— Article 1403a.— No person owning, having or 
harboring any dog accustomed to hunt and pursue deer shall allow any such dog to 
run at large, hunt or pursue in any places inhabited by deer between the 1st of Novem- 
ber of one year and the 20th of October of the following year. Every one may without 
incurring any responsibility kill any such dog found running at large, hunting or 
pursuing in such localities between the ■ above-mentioned dates. 

WASTE. — 1404a. No person who has killed or taken any bird or animal suitable for 
food, shall allow the flesh thereof to be destroyed or spoilt, and no person who has 
lilled or taken a fur-bearing animal shall allow the skin thereof to be destroyed or spoilt. 

LICENSES.— 1415. No person, not domiciled in the Province of Quebec, can hunt 
therein unless he holds one of the following licenses, that is to say: 

1. A general license, authorizing the hunting or shooting of all the birds and animals, 
the hunting or shooting whereof is regulated by this section, with the exception of 
those mentioned in article 1401. 

2. A license, respecting fur-bearing and other animals, authorizing the hunting of the 
animals, the hunting whereof is regulated by articles 1396, 1399, 1401c, 1401e. 

3. A license, respecting wild birds, authorizinfig the hunting or shooting of the birds, 
the hunting and shooting whereof is reguJated by articles 1401 and 1401f. 

4. A license, respecting the same wild birds, authorizing the hunting and shooting 
thereof in and over the islands, bays, dunes or foreshores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

FEES.— 141G. Every such license shall be issued by the Commissioner, or by any 
other person designated by him, upon payment of fees according to the tarifif estab- 
lished by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. The fee may be reduced if the license is 
issued to a member of any fish and game club, which is incorporated under the laws of 
the Province and has complied with the provisions of such laws; but on condition that 
such club is lessee of a hunting reserve in accordance with article 1417a. [Order in 
Council, July 2, 1901.— In future such licenses shall be issued at the following rates: 
(1) $25 for every person not domiciled in the Province of Quebec or in the Province of 
Ontario; (2) $15 for every person domiciled in the Province of Ontario; (3) $1.50 per 
day for any person not domiciled in the Province of Quebec hunting or shooting in the 
Province for a few days only.] 

SCIENTIFIC SPECIMENS.— 1417. The Commissioner may grant written licenses 
to any person, bona fide, desirous of obtaining birds' eggs or fur-bearing or other 
animals for scientific or breeding purposes during the close season. Persons not 

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domiciled in the Province of Uuebec shall, ior such licenses, pay a fee which shall not 
be less than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars. 

HUNTING TEKKITUKY LIPASES.— 1417a. l-rom and out of the public lands re- 
mote from any settlements, it shall be lawful tor the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, 
upon the recommendation of the Commissioner, to erect hunting territories, which 
shall in no casq exceed four hundred square miles each, provided such lands are not 
subdivided into lots or are unht tor cultivation. The Commissioner may lease, either 
by auction or by private agreement, any such hunting territory to one or more persons 
for a period not exceeding ten years, for an annual sum of not less than one dollar per 
square mile, agreed upon between him and the lessee or lessees. 

EXPORT OF (lAME.— ISee "Canadian (lame lixport" in index facing back cover.] 
PICKEREL.— Sec. 5. No one shall fish for pickerel (dore) between the 15th day of 
April and the 15th day of May, both days inclusive. 

BASS.— Order in Council, May 13, 1893.— Sec. 2 [as amended 1895]. After the 1st day 
of January, 1894, the close season for bass in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec shall 
be from the 15th day of April till the 15th day of June, inclusive. 

MASKINONGE.— Order in Council, April 12, 1892.— No one shall fish for any maski- 
nonge between the 25th of May and the 1st of July. 

SALMON.-Sec. 7 [as amended by Order in Council, May 11, 1904]. (a) Salmon shall 
not be fished for, caught or killed between the 31st day of July and the 1st day of 
May, in the Province of Quebec: Provided always, That it shall be lawful to fish for, 
catch and kill salmon with a rod and line, in the manner known as fly-surface fishing, 
from the 1st day of February to the 15th day of August, in each year, both days in- 
clusive, except on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, east of, but not in- 
cluding the Natashquan River, where fly-surface fishing shall be lawful from the 1st 
day of February to the 31st day of August in each year, both days inclusive. 

SPECKLED TROUT.— Sec. 8. (a) No person shall fish for any speckled trout between 
the 1st day of October and the 30th day of April. 

GRAY OR LAKE TROUT, LANDLOCKED SALMON.— Sec. 10. No one shall fish 
for any gray trout or lake trout, and landlocked salmon, between the 15th day of October 
and the 1st day of December, both days inclusive. 

\\TNANISH.— By an order in Council the close season is from Sept. 30 to Dec. 1. 
NON-RESIDENT ANGLERS.— Revised Statutes, Art. 1378.— 2. Persons having their 
domicile in the Province of Quebec do not require licenses to angle in the waters of 
the lakes and rivers which are not under lease, and which are the property of the Crown. 
3. Any person not having his domicile in the Province of Quebec who desires to fish 
therein must, before beginning to fish, procure a license to that effect from the Com- 
missioner or from any person by him authorized. The fee required is determined in each 
case by the Commissioner, but it shall never be less than $10. [See "Canadian Angling 
Permits" in index facing back cover.] , 

CANADIAN GAME EXPORT. 

The exportation of wild turkeys, (luail, i)artri(lgc, prairie fowl and woodcock, in the 
carcass or parts thereof, is prohibited by the Canadian tariff act. 

By Customs Department Memorandum No. 1063 B, dated Aug. 16, 1899, deer killed by 
sportsmen may be exported under the following conditions, the term deer comprising 
deer, caribou and moose: 

The deer may be exported at the customs ports of Halifax, Yarmouth, Macadam 
Junction, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, Niagara Falls, Fort Erie, Windsor, 
Sault Ste. Marie, Port Arthur and such other ports as shall from time to time by the 
Minister of Customs be designated for the export of deer. 

The exportation of deer in the carcass or parts thereof (except as to cured deer heads 
and hides of deer) shall be permitted only during or within fifteen days after the open 
season. 

No person shall in one year export more than the whole or parts of two deer, nor 
shall exportation of such deer be made by the .same person on more than two occasions 
during one calendar year. A non-resident exporter must show his license to the collector 
of customs. 

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HOW OLD PINTO DIED. 

From Allen Kelly's "Bears I Have Met and Others." 

This is an incredible bear story, but it is true. George Gleason 
told it to a man who knew the bear so well that he thought the 
old Pinto grizzly belonged to him and wore his brand, and as 
George is no bear hunter himself, but is a plain, ordinary truthful 
person, there is not the slightest doubt that he related only the 
facts. George said some of the facts were incredible before he 
started in. He had never heard or read of such tenacity of life in 
any animal. But there are precedents, even if George never heard 
of them. 

The vitality of the California grizzly is astonishing, as many a 
man has sorrowful reason to know, and the tenacity of the Old 
Pinto's hold on life was remarkable, even among grizzlies. This 
Pinto was a famous bear. His home was among the rocks and 
manzanita thickets of La Liebra Mountain, a limestone ridge south- 
west of Tehachepi that divides Gen. Beale's two ranches, Los 
Alamos y Agua Caliente and La Liebra, and his range was from 
Tejon Pass to San Emigdio. His regular occupation was killing 
Gen. Beale's cattle, and the slopes of the hills and the cienegas 
around Castac Lake were strewn with the bleached bones of his 
prey. For twenty years that solitary old bear had been monarch 
of all that Gen. Beale surveyed — to paraphrase President Lincoln's 
remarks to Surveyor-General Beale himself — and wrought such 
devastation on the ranch that for years there had been a standing 
reward for his hide. 

Men who had lived in the mountains and knew the old Pinto's 
infirmity of temper were wary about invading his domains, and 
not a vaquero could be induced to go a-foot among the manzanita 
thickets of the limestone ridge. The man who thought he owned 
the Pinto followed his trail for two months many years ago and 
learned many things about him ; among others that the track of 
his hind foot measured fourteen inches in length and nine inches 
in width ; that the hair on his head and shoulders was nearly white ; 
that he could break a steer's neck with a blow of his paw ; 
that he feared neither man nor his works ; that while he would in- 
vade a camp with leisurely indifference, he would not enter the 
stout oak-log traps constructed for his capture ; and finally, that it 
would be suicide to meet him on the trail with anything less efficient 
than a gatling gun. 

Old Juan, the vaquero, who lived in a cabin on the flat below 
the alkaline pool called Castac Lake, was filled with a fear of Pinto 
that was akin to superstition. He told how the bear had followed 
him home and besieged him all night in the cabin, and he would 
walk five miles to catch a horse to ride two miles in the hills. To 
him Old Pinto was "mucho diablo," and a shivering terror made 

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his eyes roll and his voice break in trembling whispers when he 
talked of the bear while riding along the cattle trails. 

Once upon a time an ambitious sportsman of San Francisco, who 
wanted to kill something bigger than a duck and more ferocious 
than a jackrabbit, read about Pinto and persuaded himself that he 
was bear-hunter enough to tackle the old fellow. He went to 
Fort Tejon, hired a guide and made an expedition to Spike-buck 
Spring, which is at the head of a ravine under the limestone ridge, 
and showed to him the footprints of a big bear in the mud and 
along the bear trail that crosses the spring. One glance at the 
track of Pinto's foot was sufficient to dispel all the dime-novel day- 
dreams of the sportsman and start a readjustment of his cam- 
paign. After gazing at that footprint, the slaying of a grizzly by 
"one well-directed shot" from the "unerring rifle" was a feat that 
lost its beautiful simplicity and assumed heroic proportions. The 
man from San Francisco had intended to find the bear's trail, 
follow it on foot, overtake or meet the grizzly and kill him in 
his tracks, after the manner of the intrepid hunters that he had 
read about, but he sat down on a log and debated the matter with 
the guide. That old-timer would not volunteer advice, but when 
it was asked he gave it, and he told the man from San Francisco 
that if he wanted to tackle a grizzly all by his lonely self, his best 
plan would be to stake out a calf, climb a tree and wait for the 
bear to come along in the night. 

So the man built a platform in the tree, about ten feet from the 
ground, staked out a calf, climbed up to the platform and waited. 
The bear came along and killed the calf, and the man in the tree 
saw the lethal blow, heard the bones crack and changed his plan 
again. He laid himself prone upon the platform, held his breath 
and hoped fervently that his heart would not thump loudly enough 
to. attract the bear's attention. The bear ate his fill of the quiver- 
ing veal, and then reared on his haunches to survey the surround- 
ings. The man from San Francisco solemnly assured the guide 
in the morning, when he got back to camp, that when Pinto sat up 
he looked down at the platform and could have walked over to the 
tree and picked him ofif like a ripe persimmon, and he thanked 
heaven devoutly that it did not come into Pinto's head that that 
would be a good thing to do. So the man from San Francisco broke 
camp and went home with some new and valuable ideas about 
hunting grizzlies, chief of which was the very clear idea that he 
did not care for the sport. 

This is the sort of bear Old Pinto was, eminently entitled to the 
name that Lewis and Clark applied to his tribe — Ursus ferox. Of 
course he was called "Old Clubfoot" and "Reelfoot" by people who 
did not know him, just as every big grizzly has been called in 
California since the clubfooted-bear myth became part of the folk 
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The clubfoot legend is another story and has nothing to do with 
the big bear of the Castac. 

Pinto was a "bravo" and a killer, a solitary, cross-grained, crusty- 
tempered old outlaw of the range. What he would or might do 
under any circumstances could not be predicted upon the basis of 
what another one of his species had done under similar circum- 
stances. The man who generalizes the conduct of the grizzly is 
liable to serious error, for tb . grizzly's individuality is strong and 
his disposition various. iJecause one grizzly scuttled into the 
brush at the sight of a man, it does not follow that another grizzly 
will behave similarly. The other grizzly's education may have been 
different. One bear lives in a region infested only by small game, 
such as rabbits, wood-mice, ants and grubs, and when he can- 
not get a meal by turning over flat rocks or stripping the bark 
from a decaying tree, he digs roots for a living. He is not ac- 
customed to battle and he is not a killer, and he may be timorous 
in the presence of man. Another grizzly haunts the cattle or sheep 
ranges and is accustomed to seeing man and beasts flee before him 
for their lives. He lives by the strong arm, takes what he wants 
like a robber baron, and has sublime confidence in his own strength, 
courage and agility. He has killed bulls in single combat, evaded 
the charge of the cow whose calf he has caught, stampeed sheep 
and their herders. He is almost exclusively carnivorous and con- 
sequently fierce. Such a bear yields the trail to nothing that lives. 
That is why Old Pinto was a bad bear. 

So long as Pinto remained in his dominions and confined his 
maraudings to the cattle ranges, he was reasonably safe from the 
hunters and perfectly safe from the settler and his strychnine 
bottle, but for some reasons of his own he changed his habits and 
his diet and strayed over to San Emigdio for mutton. Perhaps, as 
he advanced in years, the bear found it more difficult to catch cattle, 
and having discovered a band of sheep and found it not only easy 
to kill what he needed, but great fun to charge about in the band 
and slay right and left in pure wanton ferocity, he took up the 
trade of sheep butcher. For two or three years he followed the 
flocks in their summer grazing over the vast, spraddling mesas of 
Pine Mountain, and made a general nuisance of himself in the 
camps. There have been other bears on Pine Mountain, and the 
San Emigdio flocks have been harassed there regularly, but no 
such bold marauder as Old Pinto ever struck the range. Other 
bears made their forays in the night and hid in the ravines during 
the day, but Pinto strolled into the camps at all hours, charged 
the flocks when they were grazing and stampeded Haggin and Carr's 
merinos all over the mountains. 

The herders, mostly Mexicans, Basques and Portuguese, found 
it heart-breaking to gather the sheep after Pinto had scattered 
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and took to roosting on platforms in the trees instead of sleeping 
in their tents at night. Worse than all else, the bear killed their 
dogs. The men were instructed by the boss of the camp to let 
the bear alone and -keep out of his way, as they were hired to herd 
sheep and not to light bears, but the dogs could not be be made 
to understand such instructions and persisted in trying to protect 
their woolly wards. 

The owners were accustomed to losing, a few hundred sheep on 
Pine Mountain every summer, and figured the loss in the fixed 
charges; but when Pinto joined the ursine band that followed the 
liocks for a living, the loss became serious and worried the major- 
domo at the home camp. So another reward was offered for the 
grizzly's scalp and the herders were instructed to notify the Harris 
boys at San Emigdio whenever the bear raided their flocks. 

Here is where Gleason's part of the story begins. The bear 
attacked a band of sheep one afternoon, killed four and stampeded 
the Mexican herder, who ran down the mountain to the camp of 
the Harris boys, good hunters who had been engaged by the 
majordomo to do up Old Pinto. Two of the Harris boys and an- 
other man went up to the scene of the raid, carrying their rifles, 
blankets and some boards with which to construct a platform. 
They selected a pine tree and built a platform across the lower 
limbs about twenty feet from the ground. When the platform was 
nearly completed, two of the men left the tree and went to where 
they had dropped their blankets and guns, about a hundred yards 
away. One picked up the blankets and the other took the three rifles 
and started back toward the tree, where the third man was still 
tinkering the platform. 

The sun had set, but it was still twilight, and none of the party 
dreamed of seeing the bear at that time, but within forty yards of 
the tree sat Old Pinto, his head cocked to one side, watching the 
man in the tree with much evident interest. Pinto had returned to 
his muttons, but found the proceedings of the man up the tree 
so interesting that he was letting his supper wait. 

The man carrying the blankets dropped them and seized a heavy 
express rifle that some Englishman had left in the country. The 
other man dropped the extra gun and swung a Winchester .45-70 
to his shoulder. The express cracked first, and the hollow-pointed 
ball struck Pinto under the shoulder. The .45-70 bullet struck a 
little lower and made havoc of the bear's liver. The shock knocked 
the bear ofT his pins, but he recovered and ran into a thicket of 
scrub oak. The thicket was impenetrable to a man, and there was 
no man present who wanted to penetrate it in the wake of a 
wounded grizzly. 

The hunters returned to their camp, and early next morning they 
came back up the mountain with three experienced and judicious 
dogs. They had hunted bears enough to know that Pinto would 

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be very sore and ill-tempered by that time, and being men of 
discretion as well as valor, they had no notion of trying to follow 
the dogs through the scrub oak brush. Amateur hunters might 
have sent the dogs into the brush and remained on the edge of the 
thicket to await developments, thereby involving themselves in 
diflficulties, but these old professionals promptly shinned up tall 
trees when the dogs struck the trail. The dogs roused the bear 
in less than two minutes, and there was tumult in the scrub oak. 
Whenever the men in the trees caught a glimpse of the grizzly 
they fired at him, and the thud of a bullet usually was followed by 
yells and fierce growlings, for the bear is a natural sort of a beast 
and always bawls when he is hurt very badly. There is no affectation 
about a grizzly, and he never represses the instinctive expression 
of his feelings. Probably that is why Bret Harte calls him "cow- 
ard of heroic size," but Bret never was very intimately acquainted 
with a marauding old rufifian of the range. 

The hunters in the trees made body shots mostly. Twice during 
the imbroglio in the brush the bear sat up and exposed his head 
and the men fired at it, but as he kept wrangling with the dogs, 
they thought they missed. This is the strange part of the story, 
for some of the bullets passed through the bear's head and did not 
knock him out. One Winchester bullet entered an eye-socket and 
traversed the skull diagonally, passing through the forward part 
of the brain. A grizzly's brain-pan is long and narrow, and a 
bullet entering the eye from directly in front will not touch it. 
Wherefore it is not good policy to shoot at the eye of a charging 
grizzly. Usually it is equally futile to attempt to reach his brain 
with a shot betweent the eyes, unless the head be in such a position 
that the bullet will strike the skull at a right angle, for the bone 
protecting the brain in front is from two and a half to three inches 
thick, and will turn the ordinary soft bullet. One of the men did 
get a square shot from his perch at Pinto's forehead, and the 
.45-47-450 bullet smashed his skull. 

The shot that ended the row struck at the "butt" of the grizzly's 
ear and passed through the base of the brain, snufifing out the light 
of his marvelous vitality like a candle. 

Then the hunters came down from their roosts, cut their way 
into the thicket and examined the dead giant. Counting the shots 
fired the night before, one of which had nearly destroyed a lung, 
there were eleven bullet holes in the bear, and his skull was so 
shattered that the head could not be saved for mounting. Only 
two or three bullets had lodged in the body, the others having 
passed through, making large, ragged wounds and tearing the in- 
ternal organs all to pieces. 

The skin, which weighed over one hundred pounds, was taken 
to Bakersfield, and the meat that had not been spoiled by the bullets 
was cut up and sold to butchers and others. Estimating the total 

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weight from the portions that were actually tested on the scales, 
the butchers figured that Pinto weighed iioo pounds. The 1800 
and 2000-pound bears have all been weighed by the fancy of the men 
who killed them, and the farther away they have been from the 
scales the more they have weighed. 

There is no other case on record of a bear that continued fight- 
ing with a smashed skull and pulped brains, although possibly 
such cases may have occurred and never found their way into 
print. Gleason saw Old Pinto shortly after the fight and examined 
the head, and there is no reason to doubt his description of the 
effect of the bullets. 



A DEN FULL OF GRIZZLIES. 

From Allen Kelly's " Bears I Have Met and Others." 

A MAN from San Gabriel Caiion came into Los Angeles and told 
bear stories to the Professor and the Professor told them to other 
people. The main point of the man's tale was that he had found 
a den inhabited by two grizzlies of great size and fierce aspect. He 
had seen the bears and was mightily afraid of them, and he wanted 
somebody to go up there and exterminate them so that he might 
work his mining claim unmolested and unafraid. The Professor, 
being guileless and confiding, beheved the tale, and he tried to 
oblige the bear-haunted miner by promoting an expedition of ex- 
termination. Seventeen men replied to his overtures with the 
original remark that they "Hadn't lost any bears." Since 1620 
that has been the standard bear joke of the North American con- 
tinent, and its immortality proves that is was the funniest thing 
that ever was said. 

At last the Professor found a man who did not know the joke, 
and that man straightway consented to go to the rescue of the 
bear-beleaguered denizen of San Gabriel Canon. He and three 
others went into the mountains with guns loaded for bear, which 
was an error of judgment — they should have been loaded for the 
tellers of bear tales. An expedition properly outfitted to hunt 
bear liars rather than bear lairs could load a four-horse wagon with 
game in the San Gabriel Caiion. 

Old P)ill, who had lived in the caiion many years, sorrowfully 
admitted that the canon's reputation for harboring persons of un- 
impeachable veracity was not what it should be. The man-who- 
was-afraid-of-bears could not be depended upon to give bed-rock 
facts about bears, but he, Old Bill, was a well of truth in that line 
and had some good horses and burros to let to bear hunters. He, 
Old Bill, had killed many bears in the canon, but had left enough 
to provide entertainment for other hunters. His last bear killing 
was heaps of fun. He ran across three in a bunch, shot one, 

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drowned another in the creek, and jumped upon the third, and 
"just stomped him to death." As for the man up the creek, who 
pretended to have found a den of bears, he had been telUng that 
story for so many years that he probably beheved it, but nobody 
else did. The man up the creek had the nerve to pretend that his 
favorite pastime was fighting grizzlies with a butcher knife, and 
anybody acquainted with bears ought to size up that sort of a man 
easy enough, said Old Bill. 

The man up the creek, the original locator of the denful of 
grizzlies, had his opinion of Old Bill as a slayer of bears. It was 
notorious in the canon that the only bear Old Bill ever saw was 
a fifty-pound cub that stole a string of trout from under Bill's nose, 
waded the creek and went away while Old Bill was throwing his 
gun into the brush and hitching frantically along a fallen spruce 
under the impression that he was climbing a tree. As for him- 
self, he was getting too old and rheumatic to hunt, but he had had 
a little sport with bears in his time. He recalled with especial 
glee a little incident of ten or a dozen years ago. He had been over 
on the Iron Fork hunting for a stray mule, and he was coming 
back through the canon after dark. It was darker than a stack 
of black cats in the canon, and when he bumped up against a bear 
in the trail he couldn't see to get in his favorite knife play — a 
slash to the left and a back-handed cut to the right, severing the 
tendons of both front paws — and so he made a lunge for general 
results, and then shinned up a sycamore tree. To his great sur- 
prise he heard the bear scrambling up the tree behind him, and 
he crawled around to the other side of the trunk and straddled a 
big branch in the fork, where he could get a firm seat and have the 
free use of his right arm. He could just make out the dark bulk 
of the bear as the beast crawled clumisly up the slanting trunk in 
front of him, and as the bear's left arm came around and clasped 
the trunk, he chopped at it with his heavy knife. The bear roared 
with pain. Instantly he lunged furiously at the bear's body just 
under the arm pit, driving the knife to the hilt two or three times, 
and with a moan the beast let go all holds and fell heavily to the 
ground. 

For a minute all was silent. Then the growling began again, 
and he heard the scratching of claws upon the tree. In another 
moment the dark bulk of the bear appeared again in front of him, 
and again he drove the knife to the hilt into his body and felt the 
hot blood spurt over his hand. Clawing, scratching and yelling, 
the bear slid back down the tree and bumped heavily on the ground, 
but in a moment resumed the attack and climbed the tree as quickly 
as if he were fresh and unwounded. 

The man up the tree was puzzled to account for such remarkable 
vitality and perseverance, but he braced himself for the combat and 
at the proper moment chopped viciously at the bear's forearm and 

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felt the blade sink into the bone. This time he got in three good 
hard lunges under the arm, and when the bear fell "ker-flop" he 
had no doubt that the fight was ended. 

But there never was another such bear as that one. It wasn't 
a minute before the whole thing had to be done over again, and 
the man up the tree varied the performance by reaching around 
and giving the bear a whack in the neck that nearly cut his head 
ofif. This sort of thing was repeated at intervals for two or three 
hours, but at last the attacks ceased, and all was still at the foot 
of the tree. The man was weary, and, to tell the truth, a little 
rattled. He did not deem it wise to come ofif his perch and take 
any chance of trouble on the ground, so he strapped himself to the 
branch with his belt and fell asleep. 

It was gray dawn when he awoke. He rubbed his eyes and 
looked down at the ground. Then he rubbed them again and 
pinched himself and glanced around at the rocks and trees to make 
sure that he was not in a trance. He said to himself, being a 
reader of the poets, "Can such things be, or is visions about?" 

It was no dream and the man up the canon said it was no lie. 
Lying about the foot of the sycamore were nine dead bears, welter- 
ing in their gore. 

Which explains why the Don and the Colonel and the rest of 
the expedition of extermination returned forthwith to Los Angeles 
without having seen a bear. There are no more bears. The man 
up the caiion killed them all years ago. 



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Vermont, 57. 
Virginia, 70. 
WashiDfi'ton, 43. 
West Virerinia, 69. 
Wisconsin. lOl. 
Wyoming, 22. 
Yellowstone Park, 8. 



Alabama, 96. 
Alaska, 34. 
Ai'izona, 29. 
Arkansas, 38. 
California, 88. 
Colorado, 49. 
Connecticut, 86*. 
Delaware, 68. 
Dist. Columbia, 30. 
Florida. 27. 
Georgia. 28*. 
Idaho, 20 
Illinois, 84. 
Indiana, 97. 
Indian Territory, 24. 
loiva, 64. 
Kansas, 36. 
Kentucky, 35. 
I^acey L.aw^, 4. 
Louisiana, 100. 
Maine. 9 
Maryland, 6. 
Massachusetts, 81. 



Michigan, 93. 
Minnesota, 13. 
Mississippi, 24. 
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Angling Permits, 115. 
Customs, 1 15. 
Export of Trout, 104. 
Export of Game, 1 18. 

British Columbia, 105. 
Manitoba, 106. 
New Brunswick, 107. 
Nevi'foundland, 110 
N. W. Ter., 109, 128. 
Nova Scotia, 111*. 
Ontario, 1 1 T 
Quebec, IK 



Missouri, 

Montana, 17. 

Nebraska, 90. 

Nevada, 92. 

New Hampshire, 54. 

New^ Jersey, 60. 

New^ Mexico, 72. 

New York, 73. 

North Carolina, 103^ 

North Dakota, 50. 

Oklahoma, 66. 

Ohio, 66. 

Oregon, 46. 

Pennsylvania, 39. 

Rhode Island, SiS. 

South Carolina, 33. 

South Dakota, 52. 

Tennessee, 102. 

Texas. 98*. 

Utah 37. 
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Act July 23, 1894, in effect Jan. i, 1896. 

[Act applies to those portions of the Northwest Territories not included in Assiniboia, 
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and Ammunition. Tennis and Baseball Supplies. 

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RIFLES, SHOTGUNS, AND AMMUNITION. 

Winchester rifles, shotguns, and ammunition are not the choice of 
any special class, but of practically all intelligent sportsmen who go to 
the woods, the plains, or the mountains in quest of game. Winchester 
rifles are made in all desirable calibers from .22 to .50 and Win- 
chester shotguns in 10, 12, and 16 gauge. The fact that we have 
sold over two million Winchester guns is pretty good evidence of 
their popularity. If you buy some other make you may get satis- 
faction ; if you buy Winchester guns and ammunition you are sure 
of satisfaction. If you want to feel that confidence which gives 
results, use Winchester guns for all your shooting and Winchester 
cartridges in all your guns — they are made for each other. 

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